Dick Haugland | |
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Born | Richard Paul Haugland July 17, 1943 Huron, South Dakota, U.S. |
Died | October 5, 2016 | (aged 73)
Alma mater | Stanford University Hamline University |
Organization | Richard P. Haugland Foundation |
Parent(s) | Elizabeth M. (Steuber) Haugland Nelvin E. Haugland |
Richard Paul Haugland (July 17, 1943 – October 5, 2016) was an American scientist noted for his work in researching and commercializing fluorescent dyes.[1] He completed his PhD at Stanford in 1970 under Lubert Stryer, showing in a now widely cited and classic paper that Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) can be used as a "spectroscopic ruler" to measure distances in macromolecules.[2] Haugland founded Molecular Probes in 1975 and continued as its president after the corporation was bought by Invitrogen in 2003.[1][3] He is the original author of the authoritative volume on molecular probes, The Molecular Probes Handbook,[4] now in its 11th edition.