Celebrating the Millennium:
Historical Highlights of Photosynthesis Research, Part 3
Guest Editors: Govindjee, John F. Allen & J. Thomas Beatty
Acceptance of the Enrico Fermi Award by Martin Kamen (April 24, 1996)
Obituaries: AndrŽe Pirson (1910–2004) and Lawrence Bogorad (1921–2003)
Introduction and Timelines
Celebrating the millennium: historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 3 Govindjee, J.F. Allen, J.T. Beatty 1–13
Discoveries in oxygenic photosynthesis (1727–2003): a perspective Govindjee, D. Krogmann 15–57
Time line of discoveries: anoxygenic bacterial photosynthesis H. Gest, R.E. Blankenship 59–70
Tributes
The contributions of James Franck to photosynthesis research: a tribute J.L. Rosenberg 71–76
Samuel Ruben’s contributions to research on photosynthesis and bacterialmetabolism with radioactive carbon H. Gest 77–83
Reaction Centers and Photosystems
Steps on the way to building blocks, topologies, crystals and X-ray structural analysis of Photosystems I and II of water-oxidizing photosynthesis H.T. Witt 85–107
Unraveling the Photosystem I reaction center: a history, or the sum of many efforts P. Fromme, P. Mathis 109–124
Early indications formanganese oxidation state changes during photosynthetic oxygen production: a personal account T.J. Wydrzynski 125–135
Engine of life and big bang of evolution: a personal perspective J. Barber 137–155
My daily constitutional in Martinsried
J.P. Allen 157–163
Light-Harvesting and Pigment-Protein Complexes
Chlorophyll chemistry before and after crystals of photosynthetic reaction centers J. Fajer 165–172
Purple bacterial light-harvesting complexes: from dreams to structures R.J. Cogdell, H. Hashimoto, A.T. Gardiner 173–179
The FMO protein J.M. Olson 181–187
How the chlorophyll-proteins got their names E.L. Camm, B.R. Green 189–196
Electron Transport, Proton Gradients, and ATP
Protons, proteins and ATP W. Junge 197–221
The Q-cycle – a personal perspective A.R. Crofts 223–243
On why thylakoids energize ATP formation using either delocalized or localized proton gradients – a Ca2+ mediated role in thylakoid stress responses R.A. Dilley 245–263
The unfinished story of cytochrome f D.S. Bendall 265–276
The isolation of a functional cytochrome b6 f complex: from lucky encounter to rewarding experiences G. Hauska 277–291
Ironiesin photosynthetic electron transport: a personal perspective W.A. Cramer 293–305
Reductive Processes
How is ferredoxin-NADP reductase involved in the NADP photoreduction of chloroplasts? M. Shin 307–313
Research on carbon dioxide fixation in photosynthetic microorganisms (1971–present) F.R. Tabita 315–332
Biogenesis
From chloroplasts to chaperones: how one thing led to another R.J. Ellis 333–343
Chloroplasts in living cells and the string-of-grana concept of chloroplast structure revisited S.G. Wildman, A.M. Hirsch, S.J. Kirchanski, D. Spencer 345–352
Regulation of photosystem synthesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus C. Bauer 353–360
Evolution
The archaeal concept and the world it lives in: a retrospective C.R. Woese 361–372
Thinking about the evolution of photosynthesis J.M. Olson, R.E. Blankenship 373–386
Techniques and Applications
The stopped-flowmethod and chemical intermediates in enzyme reactions – a personal essay B. Chance 387–400
Trails of green alga hydrogen research – from Hans Gaffron to new frontiers A. Melis, T. Happe 401–409
Engineering the chloroplast encoded proteins of Chlamydomonas L. Xiong, R.T. Sayre 411–419
Pictorial demonstrations of photosynthesis R.P. Hangarter, H. Gest 421–425
Retrospectives
Passage of a young Indian physical chemist through the world of photosynthesis research at Urbana, Illinois, in the 1960s: a personal essay A.K. Ghosh 427–437
The conference at Airlie House in 1963 H.J. Rurainski 439–446
A list of photosynthesis conferences and of edited books in photosynthesis Govindjee 447–460