. "American scientist" . . . "1943Z"^^ . "Richard Paul \"Dick\" Haugland (born July 17, 1943) is an American scientist noted for his work in researching and commercializing fluorescent dyes. He completed his PhD at Stanford in 1970 under Lubert Stryer, showing in a now widely cited and classic paper that F\u00F6rster resonance energy transfer (FRET) can be used as a \"spectroscopic ruler\" to measure distances in macromolecules."@en . "Richard Paul Haugland"@en . "Dick Haugland"@en . "1943-07-17Z"^^ . "Haugland, Richard P."@en . . .