Old and New Developments in Fluorescence Spectroscopy. - Old and New Developments in Fluorescence Spectroscopy. - Technique. - Technique of Pulse Fluorometry. - Phase and Modulation Fluorometry. - Synchrotron Radiation as a Source to Study Time-Dependent Phenomena. - Remarks on a Novel Method for Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements. - Data Analysis. - The Pile-Up Problem in Pulse Fluorometry. - Least Squares Methods of Analysis. - Least Squares Methods of Analysis. - A Critical Appraisal of Analytical Methods. - Estimators of Exponential Decay A Postscript. - Beyond Chi-Square: Evaluation of Parametric Models Used in the Analysis of Data from Fluorescence Decay Experiments. - Fluorescence Decay Analysis by the Method of Moments. - Remarks on the Method of Moments for Fluorescence Decay Analysis. - Systems Analysis Approaches. - Fourier Transform Analysis. - Analysis of Pulse Fluorometry Data by Laplace Transforms. - Modulating Functions A Deconvolution Method. - An Analysis of Errors in the Phase-Plane Method of Deconvoluting Luminescence Lifetimes. - Excited-State Kinetics. - Kinetics of Fluorescence Decay: An Overview. - Excited-State Proton Transfer. - Kinetic Aspects of Exciplex Photophysics. - The Influence of Diffusion on Fluorescence Quenching. - Solvent Relaxation. - Long-Range Nonradiative Transfer of Electronic Excitation Energy. - Energy Migration in Disordered Systems. - Convolution Kinetics. - Fluorescence Depolarization. - Measurement of Brownian Correlation Times by Pulse Fluorometry. - Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay and Brownian Rotational Motion: Theory and Application in Biological Systems. - Energy Migration and Fluorescence Depolarization: Structural Studies of Ethidium Bromide-Nucleic Acid Complexes. - Theory and Application of Differential Polarized Phase Fluorometry. -Membrane Structure and Dynamics by Fluorescence Probe Depolarization Kinetics. - Selected Applications. - Comments on the Tryptophan Lifetime Puzzle. - The Excited-State Deprotonation of the Indole N-H of Tryptophan. - A Preliminary Application of Phase/Modulation Fluorometry to the Tryptophan Problem. - The Photophysics of Tryptophan. - The Fluorescence Decays of Tryptophan in Solution at Neutral pH and in Horse Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase. - Time-resolved Spectroscopy of Tryptophyl Fluorescence in Proteins: Application to Yeast 3-Phosphoglycerate Kinase. - Intrinsic Fluorescence of Proteins. - Fluorescence in Aqueous Micellar Solutions. - Energy Migration in Photosynthesis. - Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Photosynthesis. - Epilogue. - Epilogue. Language: English