Richard Paul Haugland was an American scientist noted for his work in researching and commercializing fluorescent dyes.
17 Facts About Dick Haugland
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Dick Haugland completed his PhD at Stanford in 1970 under Lubert Stryer, showing in a now widely cited and classic paper that Forster resonance energy transfer can be used as a "spectroscopic ruler" to measure distances in macromolecules.
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Dick Haugland founded Molecular Probes in 1975 and continued as its president after the corporation was bought by Invitrogen in 2003.
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Dick Haugland is the original author of the authoritative volume on molecular probes, The Molecular Probes Handbook, now in its 11th edition.
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Dick Haugland's parents were Elizabeth M Haugland and Nelvin E Haugland.
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Dick Haugland has one sister, Barbara A Felker, who lives in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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Dick Haugland graduated number four in his high school class of 192 students in June 1961 and enrolled at Hamline University in St Paul, Minnesota.
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Dick Haugland's research at Stanford was a combination of organic synthesis of novel fluorescent dyes and experimental proofs of the theory of fluorescence resonance energy transfer, a physical effect that permits measurement of distances in the range of the size of proteins.
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Dick Haugland completed his research at Stanford University in December 1968 and worked for eight months as a chemist at Syntex in Palo Alto CA.
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Dick Haugland left Syntex and in December 1969 moved into an abandoned cabin at Bad Medicine Lake near Park Rapids, Minnesota.
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Dick Haugland met Dr Rosaria P Brivio, a biochemistry postdoctoral fellow with Dr Manuel Morales at the CVRI and they were married on November 22,1972.
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Dick Haugland died on October 5,2016, from brain cancer in Thailand, where he resided.
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Dick Haugland relocated from Roseville, Minnesota to Plano, Texas in July 1978 where it was incorporated.
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Dick Haugland published approximately 150 scientific papers in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics.
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When Molecular Probes was sold to Invitrogen in August 2003, the Haugland Foundation was renamed the Richard P Haugland Foundation and half the assets of the original Haugland Foundation were transferred to the new Rosaria P Haugland Foundation.
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The Rosaria P Haugland Foundation continues to support programs that are mostly in the Eugene, Oregon area but the Richard P Haugland Foundation now concentrates its funding on support of programs in Asia, particularly in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, The Philippines and India.
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From 2013 the Richard P Haugland Foundation has supported education and healthcare related programs in Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, India, Bangladesh and Nepal through the Firetree Asia Foundation, helping over 300,000 children.