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American chemist
Theodore G. Goodson III
Born (1969-04-05) April 5, 1969 (age 55)
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
Wabash College
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
University of Chicago
University of Oxford
ThesisSecond and third order nonlinear optical properties of organic polymeric materials (1996)
WebsiteGoodson Group

Theodore Goodson III (born April 5, 1969) is an American chemist who is the Richard Barry Bernstein Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. Goodson studies the non-linear optical properties of novel organic materials. He was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021.

Early life and education

Goodson was an undergraduate student at Wabash College, a liberal arts college in Indiana. He moved to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for graduate studies, where he majored in chemistry. His research considered the non-linear optical properties of organic polymers. He worked in both the University of Chicago and University of Oxford as a postdoctoral scholar.

Research and career

In 1998, Goodson joined the faculty at Wayne State University. He moved to the University of Michigan as a professor of chemistry in 2004. He demonstrated that ultrafast laser spectroscopy could be used to better understand materials for solar energy. In particular, he was building highly branched macromolecules. Whilst studying these macromolecules, Goodson and his co-worker Guo noticed that a hyperbranched phthalocyanine compound exhibited large and delocalized polarization. When voltages were applied to these phthalocyanines, charge carriers hopped around the structure. These phthalocyanines had high dielectric constants, which indicated that they would be better suited as the dielectric medium inside capacitors. In 2010, he became chief science officer for Wolverine Energy Solutions & Technology. The spin-out company makes use of organic energy storage materials to make capacitors.

Starting in 2006, Goodson published research on entangled two-photon absorption (E2PA). The 2006 paper reported that entangled photons produced through spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) possessed a 10 times higher excitation rate as compared to the corresponding classical TPA process in a dendrimer material. A subsequent publication reported 10 orders of magnitude enhancement in a variety of small molecules. In addition to these two reports, Goodson has published over 15 letters/articles (not including reviews) claiming to measure and utilize E2PA. These reports have been disputed by academics.

Awards and honors

Selected publications

Personal life

Goodson is married to physician Stephanie Goodson.

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  9. Goodson (2013). "Entangled Two-Photon Absorption: Experimental Demonstration with Small Organic Molecules". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 4 (12): 1970–1975. doi:10.1021/jz400851d.
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  12. "Quantum Optical Effects in Two-Photon Excitation". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118 (34): 19848–19853. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c01747.
  13. "Entangled Photon Absorption in Small Molecules". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126 (7): 3715–3720. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c07082. PMC 10875663.
  14. "Enhanced Nonlinear Absorption in Nanostructures". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120 (12): 6725–6730. doi:10.1073/pnas.2307719120. PMC 10466183.
  15. "Photonic Quantum Effects in Molecular Absorption". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124 (8): 4300–4308. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c08455.
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  19. "High-Sensitivity Measurements of Two-Photon Absorption". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142 (3): 1105–1112. doi:10.1021/jacs.0c01153.
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  21. "Enhancements in Molecular Two-Photon Absorption". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 47651. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-47651-1. PMC 6683176.
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  27. "Limitations of Entangled Photon Spectroscopy". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13 (15): 4713–4718. arXiv:2111.05946. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03751.
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  30. "Investigating Fluorescent Amino Acids with Entangled Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence". Proceedings of SPIE. 12863: 1286306. doi:10.1117/12.3003307.
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