Nelson, Philip

From Photon to Neuron: Light Imaging Vision - Princeton, Oxford Princeton University Press 2017 - xxviii. 482p

Paperpack

What is light? -- Photons and life -- Color vision -- How photons know where to go -- Optical phenomena and life -- Direct image formation -- Imaging as inference -- Imaging by X-ray diffraction -- Vision in dim light -- The mechanism of visual transduction -- The first synapse and beyond -- Electrons, photons, and the Feynman principle --Field quantization, polarization, and the orientation of a single molecule -- Quantum-mechanical theory of FRET.

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Light, Photons, Optics.

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The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

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