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and identify a reliable way to synthesize it. The chemical had been invented by a German company in 1905 and during the war was being incorporated into photographic plates to improve their sensitivity toward the red end of the visible spectrum. By using pinacyanol, the photographs taken by German
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of the constitutions of the photographic sensitisers known as the isocyanines and carbocyanines. Since 1902 has published some 20 original papers. He has trained in chemical research a large number of collaborators whose names are associated with his own in the published papers."
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