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Another member of this listserver has kindly provided me with a scanned copy of the Brumberg paper from 1959 (Biophysics), and it translated into English. It is a very interesting historical reading, and if anyone else is interested, I can send a copy to you offline.

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John Oreopoulos
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Spectral Applied Research
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Canada
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On 2013-04-21, at 11:13 PM, Guy Cox wrote:

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> There is a historical essay on all this by Ploem and Walter, published by Leica in their series Scientific and Technical Information, Edition CDR 5, pp. 1-16,12/2001.   "Multi-wavelength epi-illumination in fluorescence microscopy"  
> http://www.leica-microsystems.com/fileadmin/downloads/Other/Publications/Leica_STI_CDR5_ploem_walter_en.pdf.  
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> Brumberg is given due credit.   Of course the Iron Curtain meant that Ploem was not originally aware of that work, and the Brumberg and Krylova 1953  paper is in Russian, so may not mean much to most of us even if it can be found.  (Suspect you'd have to use Cyrillic Google to find since English Google doesn't).  
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> Hi John
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> Here is a centenary review of his work....
> http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134%2FS1062359007020161.pdf
> Here is a list of papers that are available for a fee..
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> http://pubget.com/search?from=18912654&page=1&q=author%3A%22E+M+EM+BRUMBERG%22
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> perhaps you can get copies via your library?
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> Cheers Mark
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> On 20/04/2013, at 5:08 PM, John Oreopoulos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Mark,
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>> Your last posting peaked my curiosity, so I decided to look a bit into this. The best I could come up with was a document by Barry Masters on the history of fluorescence microscopy:
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>> http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=0CEMQFjAAOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fen.bilkent.edu.tr%2F~physics%2Fnews%2Fmasters%2FELS_Hist_Fl_Micro.pdf&ei=4rlyUe2hLtGp4APHr4GwCg&usg=AFQjCNEW1u-TzRGu5wml8GZ26qGUN9iW3A&sig2=HnzzQ9CvfTkEvfJWVcfCeg&bvm=bv.45512109,d.dmg&cad=rja
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>> Both Brumberg and Ploem are mentioned in the context of some very important developments of epi-fluorescence microscopy. By chance, does anyone have a copy of the papers cited involving these authors? (Brumberg 1959, and Ploem 1967).
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>> John Oreopoulos
>> Staff Scientist
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>> On 2013-04-19, at 5:44 PM, Mark Cannell wrote:
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>>> I hope the pioneering work in 1948 of Evengenii Mikhailovich Brumberg is mentioned/considered in this context.
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