Books and Articles

Bioluminescence

James F. Case et al. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Bioluminescence & Chemiluminescence, World Scientific, 2001.

P. Colepicolo et al. "Circadian regulation of bioluminescence in the dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula," Journal of Phycology, Vol. 29, (173-179), 1993.

Govindjee et al. Light Emission by Plants and Bacteria, Academic Press, 1986.

E. Newton Harvey. A History of Luminescence, The American Philosophical Society, 1957. (Dr. Harvey couldn't write a dull book if he tried!)

-------------------------- Bioluminescence, Academic Press, 1952.

-------------------------- Living Light, Princeton University Press, 1940.

Edith A. Widder and James F. Case."Luminescent Microsource Activity in Bioluminescence of the Dinoflagellate, Pyrocystis fusiformis," Journal of Comparative Physiology-A, Vol. 145, (517-527), 1982.

---------------------------------------------------- "Two Flash Forms in the Bioluminescent Dinoflagellate Pyrocystis fusiformis," Journal of Comparative Physiolology-A, Vol. 143, (43-52), 1981.

Chaos

R. Carey and E.D. Isaac. Magnetic Domains and Techniques for Their Observation, Academic Press, 1966.

T. Carroll and L. Pecora. Nonlinear Dynamics in Circuits, World Scientific, 1995.

A.C. Davies and W. Schwarz. Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, World Scientific, 1994.

F. Durst, A. Melling and J.H. Whitelaw. Principles and Practice of Laser-Doppler Anemometry, Academic Press, 1976.

Harold E. Edgerton. Electronic Flash, Strobe, 2nd ed., MIT Press, 1979.

James Gleick. Chaos, Viking, 1987.

Holger Kantz and Thomas Schreiber. Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, 2nd ed., Cambridge, 2004.

Edward Lorenz. The Essence of Chaos, University of Washington Press, 1993.

Francis C. Moon. Chaotic Vibrations, John Wiley, 1987.

T.H. O'Dell. Magnetic Bubbles, John Wiley, 1974.

Heikki Ruskeepää. Mathematica Navigator, Elsevier, 2004.

Robert Shaw. The Dripping Faucet as a Model Chaotic System, Aerial Press, 1984.

Julien Clinton Sprott. Chaos and Time-Series Analysis, Oxford, 2003.

Ian Stewart. Does God Play Dice?, Basil Blackwell, 1989.

T.D. Truitt and A.E. Rogers. Basics of Analog Computers, John F. Rider, 1960.

J.S. Urbach, R.C. Madison, and J.T. Markert. Reproducibility of magnetic avalanches in an Fe-Ni-Co ferromagnet, Phys. Rev. Lett., 75, p. 4694 (1995).

Garnett P. Williams. Chaos Theory Tamed, Joseph Henry Press, 1997.

Ice and Snow Crystals

W.A. Bentley and W.J. Humphreys. Snow Crystals, Dover, 1962.

Edward R. LaChapelle. Field Guide to Snow Crystals, University of Washington Press, 1969.

Ukichiro Nakaya. Snow Crystals: Natural and Artificial, Harvard University Press, 1954.

Vincent J. Schaefer and John A. Day. A Field Guide to the Atmosphere, Houghton Mifflin, 1981.

Walter Tape. Atmospheric Halos, Antarctic Research Series, Vol. 64, American Geophysical Union, 1994.

Fingerprint Technology & Forensics

J. Almog et al. "Reagents for the Chemical Development of Latent Fingerprints: Synthesis and Properties of Some Ninhydrin Analogues," Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 27, 4, (912-917), 1982.

Harold Cummins and Charles Midlo. Finger Prints, Palms and Soles, Dover Publications, 1961.

Angus Hall. The Crime Busters, Treasure Press, 1984.

Robert J. Heffner and Madeleine M. Joullie. "Synthetic Routes to Ninhydrins. Preparation of Ninhydrin, 5-Methoxyninhydrin, and 5-(Methylthio)ninhydrin," Synthetic Communications, Vol. 21, 21, (2231-2256), 1991.

Thomas Kubic and Nicholas Petraco. Forensic Science: Laboratory Experiment Manual and Workbook, CRC Press, 2003.

E. Roland Menzel. Fingerprint Detection with Lasers, 2nd ed., Marcel Dekker, 1999.

--------------------------- An Introduction to Lasers, Forensic Lights and Fluorescent Fingerprint Detection Techniques, Lightning Powder Company, 1991.

Sarena Wiesner et al. "Chemical Development of Latent Fingerprints: 1,2-Indanedione Has Come of Age," Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 46, 5, (1082-1084), 2001.

Jon Zonderman. Beyond the Crime Lab, John Wiley & Sons, 1990.

Fluorescence Microscopy

B. Herman. Fluorescence Microscopy, 2nd ed., BIOS Scientific, UK, 1998.

F.W.D. Rost. Fluorescence Microscopy, Vol. I (1992) and Vol. II (1995), Cambridge University Press.

Ely Silk. "LED Fluorescence Microscopy," The Microscope, Vol. 50, 2/3, 101-118, McCrone Publishing, 2002.

G. Sluder and D.E. Wolf. Video Microscopy, Academic Press, 1998.

Kevin F. Sullivan and Steve A. Kay. Green Fluorescent Proteins, Methods in Cell Biology, Vol. 58, Academic Press, 1999.

Z.A. Wilson. Arabidopsis : A Practical Approach, Oxford, 2000.

IR and UV Fluorescence

David F. Barnes. Infrared Luminescence of Minerals, Geological Survey Bulletin 1052-C, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1958.

Orsino C. Smith. Identification and Qualitative Chemical Analysis of Minerals, 2nd ed., Van Nostrand, 1953.

Organics

Shawn Carlson. "Hot Views of the Microscopic World," The Amateur Scientist, Scientific American, May 1999. The article describes the construction of a simple microscope hot stage designed by me.

J.A. Dean. Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 14th ed., McGraw-Hill, 1992.

Eugene Meyer. Chemistry of Hazardous Materials, Prentice-Hall, 1977.

M. Windholz et al. The Merck Index, 9th ed., Merck & Co., 1976.

Plasma Science

Amasa S. Bishop. Project Sherwood—The U.S. Program in Controlled fusion, Addison-Wesley, 1958.

I.H. Hutchinson. Principles of Plasma Diagnostics, 2nd ed., Cambridge, 2002.

P. Misra and J.C. Mohanty. Advanced Physics Laboratory Manual, South Asian Publishers, 2007.

A.K. Singh et al. Scope and Challenges in Plasma Science & Technology, Allied Publishers, 2005.

Martin A. Uman. Lightning, Dover Publications, 1984.

Quantum Dots

A.P. Alivisatos. "Perspectives on the Physical Chemistry of Semiconductor Nanocrystals," J. Phys. Chem., 100, (13226-13239), 1996.

Thierry Cassagneau et al. "Layer-By-Layer Assembly of Thin Film Zener Diodes from Conducting Polymers and CdSe Nanoparticles," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, (7848-7859), 1998.

Mingyuan Gao et al. "White-Light Electroluminescence from Self-Assembled Q-CdSe/PPV Multilayer Structures," Advanced Materials, 9, No. 10, (802-805), 1997.

Ellen R. Goldman et al. "Avidin: A Natural Bridge for Quantum Dot-Antibody Conjugates," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, (6378-6382), 2002.

Xavier Michalet et al. "Properties of Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanocrystals and their Application to Biological Labeling," Single Molecules, 2, 4, (261-276), 2001.

Lianhua Qu and Xiaogang Peng, "Control of Photoluminescence Properties of CdSe Nanocrystals in Growth," J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 124, No. 9, (2049-2055), 2002.

A. Sashchiuk et al. "Properties of PbS nanocrystals embedded in zirconia sol-gel film," Materials Science and Engineering C, 19, (67-71), 2002.

Zhiyong Tang et al. "Spontaneous Organization of Single CdTe Nanoparticles into Luminescent Nanowires," SCIENCE, Vol. 297, (237-240), July 12, 2002.

Andy Watson et al. "Lighting Up Cells with Quantum Dots," BioImaging, Biotechniques, Vol. 34, No. 2, (296-303),2003.

P. Williams et al. "Schizosaccharomyces pombe fed-batch culture in the presence of cadmium for the production of cadmium sulphide quantum semiconductor dots," Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 30, (354-362), 2002.

W. William Yu and Xiaogang Peng. "Formation of High-Quality CdS and Other II-Vi Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Noncoordinating Solvents: Tunable Reactivity of Monomers," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 41, No. 13, (2368-2371), 2002

Radioluminescence, X-rays, Image Intensifiers

E.E. Fournier D'albe. The Life of Sir William Crookes, D. Appleton and Company, 1924.

Paul Goldberg. Luminescence of Inorganic Solids, Academic Press, 1966.

E. Newton Harvey. A History of Luminescence, The American Philosophical Society, 1957. (One of the most interesting books ever written on the subject.)

W.R. Hendee, E.L. Chaney, and R.P. Rossi. Radiologic Physics, Equipment and Quality Control, Year Book Medical, 1977.

Allan Lytel. Industrial X-Ray Handbook, 1st ed., The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962.

Karl Przibram. Irradiation Colours and Luminescence, Pergamon, 1956.

Special Methods

Howard C. Berg. "Symmetries in bacterial motility," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 93, (14225-14228), Dec. 1996

Julian D. Corrington. Working With the Microscope, McGraw-Hill, 1941. (An older book but unsurpassed.)

Robert E. Fischer, Biljana Tadic-Galeb. Optical System Design, McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Jabez Hogg. The Microscope, 15th ed., George Routledge, 1911. (I happen to have this edition, but any edition will bring great enjoyment to microscopists.)

G.S. Settles. Schlieren and Shadowgraph Techniques, Springer, 2001.

S. Tolansky. An introduction to Interferometry, 2nd ed., John Wiley, 1973.

------------------ Microstructures of Surfaces using Interferometry, American Elsevier, 1968.

------------------ Multiple-Beam Interference Microscopy of Metals, Academic Press, 1970.

------------------ Multiple-Beam Interferometry of Surfaces & Films, Dover, 1970.

------------------ Surface Microtopography, Interscience, 1960.

A.R. Verma. Crystal Growth and Dislocations, Butterworths Scientific, 1953.

Steve D. Wilson. Applied and Experimental Microscopy, Burgess Publishing, 1967. (Interesting novel as well as older techniques in microscopy are covered. Wilson discusses diatom illumination)

Robert W. Wood. Physical Optics, Dover, 1967. (If you buy only one book in optics, let it be this one.)

Video Gallery

James Dale Barry. Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning, Plenum Press, 1980.

Shawn Carlson. "Hot Views of the Microscopic World," The Amateur Scientist, Scientific American, May 1999. The article describes the construction of a simple microscope hot stage using indium-tin oxide electroconductive glass that was designed by Ely Silk.

E.L. Koschmieder. Bénard Cells and Taylor Vortices, Cambridge, 1993.

Wolfgang Merzkirch. Flow Visualization, 2nd edition, Academic Press, 1987.

G.S. Settles. Schlieren and Shadowgraph Techniques, Springer, 2001.

Ely Silk. "Ball Lightning," The Amateur Scientist's Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1997.

Stanley Singer. The Nature of Ball Lightning, Plenum Press, 1971.

Mark Stenhoff. Ball Lightning-An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics, Kluwer/Plenum, 1999.

Links 'n Things

The Society for Amateur Scientists   If you love science and want to encourage others, be sure to visit their great Web site and join! Dr. Shawn Carlson is the founder and executive director. Forrest M. Mims, III is the general editor of the society's journal, The Citizen Scientist.

Online Version of LED Fluorescence  This is my original article on LED fluorescence. It was initially released during a poster session at the first annual meeting of the SAS in Philadelphia on June 28-30, 2002.

Caltech's Snowflakes  Kenneth Libbrecht's beautiful Web site will teach you more about snow than Frosty ever could!

Gordon Couger's Science Links  Gordon's oft visited site lists numerous great links, including microscopy, along with descriptions of what to expect when you get there.

Micscape Frankly, I am somewhat wary of supplying this link. The Micscape microscopy Web site, intended for amateur and professional alike, is so well-done and interesting, you might never want to come back here. Oh, well. Enjoy!

Hobbyspace If you are into scientific hobbies and pursuits, especially related to Space, then you must visit Dr. Clark Lindsey's incredible Web site! Clark was kind enough to set up links to VFS under two categories: Science & Technology and Space Art.

Barkhausen effect Part of a very nice Web site run by J.L. Naudin. This particular page deals with his Barkhausen noise experiments. He includes a number of links to others in the field.

Credits

Thanks to the fantastic software out there, I was able to piece my Web site together while my wife and I are still young enough to see the pages. Also, extensive use was made of the Encyclopedia Internetica to hunt out esoteric information about fields I felt worth pursuing. To give credit where credit is due, I want to list the software, hardware, and Web sources where applicable.

Adobe Photoshop (in various incarnations with versions 4.0.1 and 7.0)

Adobe Premiere (versions 5.1 and 6.0)

Apple Quicktime Pro (6.0 and later)

Aware Electronics (RM-60 Geiger counter and AW-Radw software)

Camtasia Studio (1.0.1)/SnagIt(7)

Chemistry 4-D Draw Pro (7.0)

ChemSite for Windows

Comscire (www.comscire.com)

CoolEdit 2000

Digital FaceWorks

DS ViewerPro (5.0)

LiveSlideShow (2.0.3 )

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

MDL Isis/Draw 2.5

RecALL-PRO

RegiStax 2

Sorenson Squeeze 3.5

Terragen

WaterWorks

Wind Chimes

WinTLV (2.0)

WWW.butteflywebsite.com/clipart

WWW.free-graphics.com/clipart

The section on cyberSPACE warrants its own list of software resources including contributed libraries.

Bryce 5

Mover 5

particleIllusion 3.0 (including libraries of user-submitted effects such as: Tom Granberg [auroras], Bernard Haseloff, Martin Duerr, Elvis Deane [flame effects] and many other anonymous contributors of particle illusions)

Poser 5

Vue d'Esprit 4 and 5

Photograph of Sir William Crookes, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol. xcvi, A, 1919-1920

I contracted with Andy Saulietis, well-known to both amateur and professional astronomers, to construct the special filter-wheel assemblies I needed for my FluorEVER Microscope. I thank Andy for his superb job.

Special thanks to Sheldon Greaves, Ph.D., former director of the Society of Amateur Scientists and CEO of Tinkers Guild, for initially field testing my Web site and offering valuable feedback and suggestions.

Then there's my wife Joanie. Aside from putting up with me and my experiments for all the wonderful years of our marriage, she is a most willing lab ra...uh... assistant. Her ability to spot grammatical or contextual mistakes on paper or screen from across the room is beyond belief. If a phrase does not sound quite right or is in desperate need of clarification, her pen is at hand. When she finally gives her seal of approval, I can relax. It's akin to one's physician saying that all the lab tests were negative! She is always my greatest source of encouragement.

Finally, the most credit is due the Creator of this incredible universe. If it weren't for Him, this universe, galaxy, solar system, planet, computer, and Web site could not exist. And I wouldn't be here either.