Theodor Förster

Theodor Förster ( born May 15, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main, † 20 May 1974 in Stuttgart ) was a German physical chemist.

Theodor Förster received his doctorate in 1933 with Erwin Madelung at the University of Frankfurt am Main. In the same year he joined the NSDAP and the SA. After his habilitation he became a lecturer in 1940 in Leipzig. Following his research and teaching activities in Leipzig, he became in 1942 professor at the State University of Poznan. From 1947 to 1951 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen before he was appointed professor at the University of Stuttgart.

Among his greatest achievements is the discovery (1946 ) of the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET ).

After Theodor Förster also the Förster radius is named.

Works

• Förster, Theodor: fluorescence of organic compounds. Göttingen: Cambridge University Press, 1950 - unveränd. . Nachdr d 1st edition, in Literaturverz. erg to later Publ d author. Göttingen: Cambridge University Press, 1982 - ISBN 3-525-42312-8