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Katrin Kneipp

Katrin Kneipp is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Katrin Kneipp rather than just read about it. In short: Katrin Kneipp is a German physicist. Biography Kneipp was born in Thuringen and studied physics at Friedrich Schiller University and Humboldt University Berlin.

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Reference excerpt

Katrin Kneipp is a German physicist.

Biography Kneipp was born in Thuringen and studied physics at Friedrich Schiller University and Humboldt University Berlin. She was an associate professor at Harvard University Medical School and has been a visiting professor at MIT. She has written about her memories of Millie Dresselhaus.

Research She works on single-molecule Raman spectroscopy spectra and Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), as well as bio-medically relevant molecules.

Honours and awards 2004 – Fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to the application of Raman scattering in nanotechnology and the biomedical field." Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy 2000 - Rockefeller-Mauze visiting chair award at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1999 - Meggers award of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy

Selected publications

Books edited Recent developments in plasmon-supported Raman spectroscopy: 45 years of enhanced Raman signals. New Jersey London Singapore Beijing Shanghai Hong Kong Taipei Chennai Tokyo: World Scientific. 2018. ISBN 9781786344236. Kneipp, Katrin; Moskovits, Martin; Kneipp, Harald (20 November 2010). Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering: Physics and Applications. Springer. ISBN 9783642070167. New approaches in biomedical spectroscopy. Washington (D.C.): American chemical society. 2007. ISBN 9780841274372. Surface - enhanced Raman scattering: physics and applications. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. 2006. ISBN 9783540335665. Frontiers of surface-enhanced Raman scattering: single-nanoparticles and single cells. Chichester: Wiley. 2014. ISBN 9781118359020.

Selected papers Kneipp, Katrin; Wang, Yang; Kneipp, Harald; Perelman, Lev T.; Itzkan, Irving; Dasari, Ramachandra R.; Feld, Michael S. (3 March 1997). "Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)". Physical Review Letters. 78 (9): 1667–1670. Bibcode:1997PhRvL..78.1667K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1667. Kneipp, Janina; Kneipp, Harald; Kneipp, Katrin (2008). "SERS—a single-molecule and nanoscale tool for bioanalytics". Chemical Society Reviews. 37 (5): 1052–1060. doi:10.1039/B708459P. PMID 18443689. Kneipp, Katrin; Kneipp, Harald; Itzkan, Irving; Dasari, Ramachandra R; Feld, Michael S (13 May 2002). "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering and biophysics". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 14 (18): R597–R624. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/14/18/202.

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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In the classroom: Katrin Kneipp is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Fellows of the American Physical Society, German spectroscopists, German women physicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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Katrin Kneipp is a German physicist. Biography Kneipp was born in Thuringen and studied physics at Friedrich Schiller University and Humboldt University Berlin.

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