TY - JOUR
AU - Stanley, Philip E
AB -  Recently, Promega (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA) organized a competition to find the oldest working luminometer in Europe and the 47 entries are displayed in an online photo‐gallery . The winner was a 1975 LKB Wallac 1250 Luminometer that was still in use at the University of Milan in Italy (Figure ). Luminometers are central to all luminescence studies and in the past, journals have published extensive surveys of luminometers . In addition, the literature contains numerous reviews and evaluations of luminometers and descriptions of luminometers based on charge‐coupled detectors (CCD) invented in 1969 , low cost detectors (e.g., photographic film, silicon photodiodes) , single photon counting and luminometers designed for specific types of reaction vessels such as microplates or for direct injection of reagents for luminescence reactions with rapid emission kinetics . Winner of the Promega prize for the “Oldest Luminometer in Europe Contest” (1975 LKB Wallac 1250 Luminometer, University of Milano, Italy) . (Reproduced with permission from Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA). Early studies on chemiluminescence and bioluminescence relied on “home‐made” luminometers based on a photomultiplier tube (PMT) as the detector (PMT was developed in the early 1930s) or fluorometers that had been adapted for luminescence 
TI - Luminometers and the “Oldest Luminometer in Europe Contest”
JF - Luminescence: the Journal of Biological and Chemical Luminescence
DO - 10.1002/bio.2366
DA - 2012-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/luminometers-and-the-oldest-luminometer-in-europe-contest-zAuXJUC0Dl
SP - 197
EP - 198
VL - 27
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -