The discovery of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

This article contains a personal account[1][1] of the sequence of events leading to the first observation of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)[2–4][2] in 1973 in the Chemistry Department at Southampton University. The article begins with a concise explanation of SERS as understood today and

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