Sixty years of spectroscopic research: a tribute to Professor Edward B. M. Steers

It was a very sad day when the unbelievable news reached us that Prof. Edward Steers of London Metropolitan University had passed away. He was a major figure in Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS). This text is intended as a brief overview of Edward’s career in science, his activities in organizing me...

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Published inChemical papers Vol. 73; no. 12; pp. 2891 - 2896
Main Authors Weiss, Zdeněk, Pickering, Juliet C., Hoffmann, Volker
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 01.12.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Biochemistry
Biotechnology
Chemistry
Chemistry and Materials Science
Chemistry/Food Science
Feature
Glow discharges
Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Materials Science
Medicinal Chemistry
Research projects
Atomic spectra
Excitation
GLADNET
Edward Steers
Molecular gases
Glow Discharge Spectroscopy
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Summary:It was a very sad day when the unbelievable news reached us that Prof. Edward Steers of London Metropolitan University had passed away. He was a major figure in Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS). This text is intended as a brief overview of Edward’s career in science, his activities in organizing meetings and research networks focused on GDS and the many-sided promotion of the field, including lecturing, his work with graduate students and post-docs, and the various research projects on which he collaborated with many colleagues throughout Europe. He was widely respected and admired for his keen scientific insight and encyclopedic knowledge and he was universally loved as a genuine and wonderful person.
ISSN:2585-7290
0366-6352
1336-9075
DOI:10.1007/s11696-018-0635-z