What key details about dick haugland can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: richard paul '' dick '' haugland -lrb- born july 17 , 1943 -rrb- 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 forster resonance energy transfer -lrb- fret -rrb- can be used as a '' spectroscopic ruler '' to measure distances in macromolecules . haugland founded molecular probes in 1975 and continued as its president after the corporation was bought by invitrogen in 2003 . he is the original author of the authoritative volume on molecular probes , '' the molecular probes handbook '' , now in its 11th edition .
- birth name is richard paul haugland- parents is elizabeth m. -lrb- steuber -rrb- haugland nelvin e. haugland- organization is richard p. haugland foundation starfish country home school foundation- birth date is 17 july 1943- name is dick haugland- nationality is american- image is r haugland.jpg- birth place is huron , south dakota , u.s.- alma mater is stanford -rrb- university -lrb- ph.d. -rrb- hamline university -lrb- b.s.