Tribute to Derek Long: An instant snapshot of the development of Raman spectroscopy and its application in the fields of instrumentation and methodology, solid‐state materials, cultural heritage, DFT modeling and applications in biology, microbiology, and medicine

Abstract

This special issue of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy dedicated to Professor Derek Long provides a snapshot of the uses and improvements made in the technique, the development of which he was personally deeply involved in both fundamentally, theoretically and in the field of its applications.Data collected by the web of science indicate 75 articles for its activity at the University of Bradford from 1975 to 2008 (for a total of about 200), [1] listed under the qualifying categories: spectroscopy (82%), physical (66%), chemistry (32%), crystallography (21%), biophysics (8%), engineering (8%), cell biology (7%), instrumentation (4%), optics (3%), and polymer science (3%). However, there is no doubt that his main impact on the community of Raman spectroscopists is certainly his two textbooks, the first entitled "Raman Spectroscopy" published in 1977 by McGraw-Hill (270 pp) [2] and the second "The Raman Effect: A Unified Treatment of the Theory of Raman Scattering by Molecules" published in 2002 by John Wiley [3] (584 pp) and also the foundation with H.J. Bernstein (NRCC, Ottawa, Canada