Munday John C, Papageorgiou George C
Department of Biochemistry, Department of Plant Biology, and Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
College of Arts and Sciences, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, 23464, USA.
Photosynth Res. 2017 Jun;132(3):227-234. doi: 10.1007/s11120-017-0391-x. Epub 2017 May 18.
We present here a Tribute to Frederick Yi-Tung Cho (1939-2011), an innovative and ingenious biophysicist and an entrepreneur. He was one of the 4 earliest PhD students [see: Cederstrand (1965)-Carl Nelson Cederstrand; coadvisor: Eugene Rabinowitch; Papageorgiou (1968)-George C. Papageorgiou (coauthor of this paper); and Munday (1968)-John C. Munday Jr. (also a coauthor of this paper)] of one of us (Govindjee) in Biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) during the late 1960s (1963-1968). Fred was best known, in the photosynthesis circle for his pioneering work on low temperature (down to liquid helium temperature, 4 K) absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy of photosynthetic systems; he showed temperature independence of excitation energy transfer from (i) chlorophyll (Chl) b to Chl a and (ii) from Chl a 670 to Chl a 678; and temperature dependence of energy transfer from the phycobilins to Chl a and from Chl a 678 to its suggested trap. After doing research in biophysics of photosynthesis, Fred shifted to do research in solid-state physics/engineering in the Government Electronics Division (Group) of the Motorola Company, Scottsdale, Arizona, from where he published research papers in that area and had several patents granted. We focus mainly on his days at the UIUC in context of the laboratory in which he worked. We also list some of his papers and most of his patents in engineering physics. His friends and colleagues have correctly described him as an innovator and an ingenious scientist of the highest order. On the personal side, he was a very easy-going and amiable individual.
在此，我们向弗雷德里克·易东·赵（1939 - 2011）致敬，他是一位富有创新精神和创造力的生物物理学家兼企业家。他是我们其中一人（戈温吉）在20世纪60年代末（1963 - 1968年）于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳 - 香槟分校（UIUC）生物物理学专业最早的4名博士生之一[见：塞德斯特兰德（1965年）——卡尔·纳尔逊·塞德斯特兰德；共同导师：尤金·拉宾诺维奇；帕帕乔治乌（1968年）——乔治·C·帕帕乔治乌（本文合著者）；以及蒙迪（1968年）——小约翰·C·蒙迪（也是本文合著者）]。在光合作用领域，弗雷德最为人所知的是他在低温（低至液氦温度，4K）下对光合系统进行吸收和荧光光谱研究的开创性工作；他发现了从（i）叶绿素（Chl）b到Chl a以及（ii）从Chl a 670到Chl a 678的激发能量转移与温度无关；以及从藻胆蛋白到Chl a和从Chl a 678到其假定陷阱的能量转移与温度有关。在进行光合作用生物物理学研究之后，弗雷德转而在亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔的摩托罗拉公司政府电子部门（组）从事固态物理/工程研究，并在该领域发表了研究论文并获得了多项专利。我们主要聚焦于他在UIUC工作时所在实验室的情况。我们还列出了他的一些论文以及他在工程物理学方面的大部分专利。他的朋友和同事们恰如其分地将他描述为一位创新者和顶级的天才科学家。在个人方面，他是一个非常随和且和蔼可亲的人。
