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Ralph S. Becker was affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their academic career included research activities connected to this institution.

While specific details on Becker's research output, including titles of recent papers, fields or subfields of study, and main topics, are not available, the affiliation itself situates them within a research environment likely focused on areas represented at the University of Houston.

No record of frequent co-authors or publication venues was provided, nor were there listed book publications or awards associated with their career. This absence of data limits a more detailed account of Becker's scholarly collaborations and dissemination channels.

Becker is noted as deceased, which contextualizes their academic contributions as historical within their respective fields. Though explicit subjects, research topics, and thematic areas are not documented here, Becker's professional legacy remains tied to the university environment in which they worked.

Best Publications

  • Comparison of Si(111) surfaces prepared using aqueous solutions of NH4F versus HF

    G. S. Higashi;R. S. Becker;Y. J. Chabal;A. J. Becker

  • Comprehensive Evaluation of the Absorption, Photophysical, Energy Transfer, Structural, and Theoretical Properties of α-Oligothiophenes with One to Seven Rings

    Ralph S. Becker;J. Seixas de Melo;António L. Maçanita,†,‖ and;Fausto Elisei

  • Photochromism of Synthetic and Naturally Occurring 2H-Chromenes and 2H-Pyrans

    Ralph S. Becker;J. Michl

  • Erratum: Comprehensive Investigation of the Electronic Spectroscopy and Theoretical Treatments of Ferrocene and Nickelocene

    Donald R. Scott;Ralph S. Becker

  • Extension of electron affinities and ionization potentials of aromatic hydrocarbons.

    Ralph S. Becker;Edward Chen

  • Photochromic spiropyrans. I. Absorption spectra and evaluation of the .pi.-electron orthogonality of the constituent halves

    Norris W. Tyer;Ralph Sherman Becker

  • COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE SOLUTION PHOTOPHYSICS AND THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF OLIGOTHIOPHENES OF 1-7 RINGS

    R. S. Becker;J. Seixas de Melo;A. L. Macanita;Fausto Elisei

  • Photophysics, Photochemistry, Kinetics, and Mechanism of the Photochromism of 6′-Nitroindolinospiropyran

    C. Lenoble;R. S. Becker

  • Singlet and triplet energies of α-oligothiophenes: A spectroscopic, theoretical, and photoacoustic study: Extrapolation to polythiophene

    J. Seixas de Melo;Luı́s M. Silva;Luı́s G. Arnaut;R. S. Becker

  • Comparative Investigation of the Photoisomerization of the Protonated and Unprotonated n-Butylamine Schiff Bases of 9-cis-, 11-cis-, 13-cis-, and all-trans-Retinals

    K. A. Freedman;R. S. Becker

  • Thermal electron attachment to some aliphatic and aromatic chloro, bromo, and iodo derivatives

    Wayne E. Wentworth;Ralph Sherman Becker;Roberta Tung

  • A comprehensive investigation of the photophysics and photochemistry of salicylideneaniline and derivatives of phenylbenzothiazole including solvent effects

    Ralph S. Becker;Christian. Lenoble;Abudi. Zein

  • The visual process: photophysics and photoisomerization of model visual pigments and the primary reaction.

    Ralph S. Becker

  • A COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISM AND PHOTOPHYSICS OF ISOMERIZATION OF A PROTONATED AND UNPROTONATED SCHIFF BASE OF 11-CIS-RETINAL

    R. S. Becker;K. Freedman

  • Comprehensive Spectroscopic Investigation of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons. I. Absorption Spectra and State Assignments for the Tetracyclic Hydrocarbons and their Alkyl‐Substituted Derivatives

    Ralph S. Becker;Indra Sen Singh;Elizabeth A. Jackson

  • Photochromic Anils. Mechanisms and Products of Photoreactions and Thermal Reactions

    Ralph S. Becker;W. Frank. Richey

  • Potential Method for the Determination of Electron Affinities of Molecules: Application to Some Aromatic Hydrocarbons

    W. E. Wentworth;Ralph S. Becker

  • .beta.-Carboline photosensitizers. 1. Photophysics, kinetics and excited-state equilibria in organic solvents, and theoretical calculations

    A. Dias;A. P. Varela;M. da G. Miguel;A. L. Macanita

  • Photophysics, photochemistry and kinetics of photochromic 2H-pyrans and chromenes

    Christian Lenoble;Ralph S. Becker

  • Effect of Metal Atom Perturbations on the Luminescent Spectra of Porphyrins

    Jean B. Allison;Ralph S. Becker

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo
J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo University of Coimbra
Suresh Das
Suresh Das National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
Hugh D. Burrows
Hugh D. Burrows University of Coimbra
Ernst Bayer
Ernst Bayer University of Tübingen
Loredana Latterini
Loredana Latterini University of Perugia
René V. Bensasson
René V. Bensasson Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ronald G. Harvey
Ronald G. Harvey University of Chicago
David M. Murray
David M. Murray National Institutes of Health
João C. Lima
João C. Lima Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Fernando B. Dias
Fernando B. Dias Durham University

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