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Circular Dichroism

"Circular Dichroism" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A change from planar to elliptic polarization when an initially plane-polarized light wave traverses an optically active medium. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Circular Dichroism" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Circular Dichroism" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 247 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2000
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.