288:, also on the physics faculty at the University of Illinois, and was survived by their children. Posthumously, Eisenstein's obituary details how her shift away from the field of high-energy physics was motivated by a conflict between the demands of the field of experimental high-energy physics and the demands of raising a family. Her search to find an equally challenging research area that could be pursued with a small research team was one factor that stimulated her interest in the field of protein biophysics.
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Committee for the Status of Women for five years, including a year as chair from 1983 to 1984. Following her death, the Laura
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techniques of x-ray absorption spectroscopy and time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy to the study of biomolecules. These studies indicated that phenomena such as quantum-mechanical tunnelling can be successfully investigated even in soft-matter systems like proteins.
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of biomolecules would largely be facilitated by the collaborations she would instigate in the 1970s and thereafter. She more formally began her career shift in 1973 with a one-year appointment as a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the
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Eisenstein, Laura; Marque, Jeffrey; Kwok To Yue; Ebrey, Thomas G.; Tokunaga, Fumio; Tsuda, Motoyuki (1980). "Behaviour of octopus rhodopsin and its photoproducts at very low temperatures".
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Alberding, N.; Austin, R. H.; Beeson, K. W.; Chan, S. S.; Eisenstein, L.; Frauenfelder, H.; Nordlund, T. M. (1976-06-04). "Tunneling in ligand binding to heme proteins".
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Austin, R. H.; Beeson, K.; Eisenstein, L.; Frauenfelder, H.; Gunsalus, I. C.; Marshall, V. P. (1973-08-10). "Dynamics of carbon monoxide binding by heme proteins".
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Austin, R. H.; Beeson, K.; Eisenstein, L.; Frauenfelder, H.; Gunsalus, I. C. (1975-03-31). "Activation Energy
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Eisenstein was widely considered an outstanding young biophysicist in her field. The year of her death, Eisenstein was elected a Fellow of the
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Váró, G.; Eisenstein, L. (1987). "Infrared studies of water induced conformational changes in bacteriorhodopsin".
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Marque, J.; Eisenstein, L. (1984-11-06). "Pressure effects on the photocycle of purple membrane".
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