Jones wrote: | Oops, as you can see the Conference was in Cambridge. (where Violante’s 2003 paper was first presented) | Letts and Cravens also presented similar work there with lasers but apparently did not use the phrase | “surface plasmon”… or if they did, then maybe they are the first.
| so the $64 question is: did Widom present his version of surface plasmons earlier than this date – or did | he copy Violante or Letts/Cravens ? W-L certainly do not give attribution to either Violante or L/C in their | 2005 paper. | Yet, there is little doubt that Widom / Larsen now wish to take credit for this important detail – | and it is a big deal, so if they are the first to recognize surface plasmons, then they deserve the credit; | or if not … Violante, or Letts/Cravens, are the researchers whose name should be mentioned. | At least they did real experiments. Thanks Jones for mentioning all of this, as it brings back memories of all the great work at the time... You might find the following report/interview that Krivit made with Larsen in 2010, interesting: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2010/35/SR35915development.shtml In it, it appears that Larsen mentions the above work. Again, it is not my intention to bring up soar wounds of the past especially with Krivit, but it appears that at least by 2010 (about 5 years later), Larsen acknowledges this work of others in the field. Mark Jurich
