List of spectroscopists
Articles about notable spectroscopists.
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- Roman Balabin
- Johann Balmer
- G. Michael Bancroft
- Charles Glover Barkla
- Nikolay Basov
- Jane Blankenship
- Nicolaas Bloembergen
- Niels Bohr
- Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896–1988), discovered the hydrogen Brackett series.
- Bertram Brockhouse
- John Browning
- Robert Bunsen
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- August Hagenbach
- John L. Hall
- Theodor W. Hänsch
- Werner Heisenberg
- Brian Henderson (physicist)
- John Herschel
- William Herschel
- Gerhard Herzberg
- Victor Francis Hess
- Antony Hewish
- William Huggins
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- Derek Jackson (1906–1982), made the first spectroscopic determination of a nuclear magnetic spin.
- Pierre Janssen
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- Willis Eugene Lamb
- George Downing Liveing (1827–1924)
- Norman Lockyer
- Derek Long
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Theodore Lyman
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- Alfred Maddock
- Gary E. Martin
- Thomas Melvill
- Allan Merchant, spectral properties of the Baslescu-Lenard Equation
- Robert Andrews Millikan
- Edward Morley
- Rudolf Mössbauer
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- August Herman Pfund (1879–1949), discovered the Pfund hydrogen spectral series.
- Max Planck (1858–1947)
- Bill Price
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
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- Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.
- Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856–1927), Runge–Kutta method, Runge's phenomenon, Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
- Johannes Rydberg
- Martin Ryle
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- Sérgio Pereira da Silva Porto
- Victor Schumann (1841–1913), discovered the vacuum ultraviolet.
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow
- Angelo Secchi
- Kai Siegbahn
- Manne Siegbahn
- Richard Smalley
- Johannes Stark
- Miriam Michael Stimson (1913–2002), pioneered the KBr disk technique for Infrared spectroscopy of solid compounds.
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- Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, (born 1962), chemist at Harvard University, pioneer in the field of single molecule microscopy and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy microscopy.
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- Charles Augustus Young (1834–1908), solar spectroscopist astronomer.