Photochemical and Photobiological Reviews

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The C₄ Pathway of Photosynthesis: Ein Kranz-Typ Wirtschaftswunder?

   • David G. Bishop, Malcolm L. Reed

   Pages 1-69

3. Phycocyanins: Structure and Function

   • Alexander N. Glazer

   Pages 71-115

4. Transmission of Solar Radiation into Natural Waters

   • Raymond C. Smith, John E. Tyler

   Pages 117-155

5. Light and Diurnal Vertical Migration: Photobehavior and Photophysiology of Plankton

   • Richard B. Forward Jr.

   Pages 157-209

6. Sunlight and Melanin Pigmentation

   • Madhu A. Pathak, Kowichi Jimbow, George Szabo, Thomas B. Fitzpatrick

   Pages 211-239

7. Visible Light Therapy of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia

   • Thomas R. C. Sisson

   Pages 241-268

8. Physiological Responses of Escherichia coli to Far-Ultraviolet Radiation

   • Paul A. Swenson

   Pages 269-387

9. Back Matter

   Pages 389-391

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A stone carving from the 14th century B.C. records that the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (born Amenhoteph IV) and his wife, Nefertiti, recognized the importance of sunlight to life. In fact, Akhenaten initiated a monotheistic religion, with Aton, the sun, as God. One of his daughters be­ came the wife of King Tut Ankamon, the spelling of whose name indicates a return to the old religion and an eclipse of interest in photobiology among the pharaohs. A renewal of interest in photobiology in modern times was climaxed in 1928 by the establishment of an international organization for photobiology under the title Comite International de la Lumiere (C.I.L.). Its present title, Comite International de Photobiologie (C.I.P.), was adopted at a meeting in Paris in 1951. The first of a series of international congresses on photobiology was held in 1954 and probably represents the beginning of modern day photobiology. Medical men were prominent in the activities of the old C.I.L., for the importance of natural sunlight in human health and disease was obvious though not well understood. The bringing together of physicians with physicists, chemists, and biologists from the pure and applied branches of their subjects was the aim of the older C.I.L. and continues to the present day through the C.I.P.

• biological
• biology
• human health
• photobiology
• photosynthesis
• physiology
• sun

• Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

  Kendric C. Smith

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