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List of spectroscopists

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Articles about notable spectroscopists. This list is not necessarily complete or up to date - if you see a biography that should be here but isn't (or one that shouldn't be here but is), please update the page accordingly, even if you have no information at hand for a biography.

The format for each entry is:

  • Name, (birth-death), Nationality, optional brief reason for fame – maybe including link. --

A

  • William de Wiveleslie Abney
  • David Alter
  • Anders Jonas Ångström

B

  • Roman Balabin
  • Johann Balmer
  • G. Michael Bancroft
  • Charles Glover Barkla
  • Nikolay Basov
  • Jane Blankgen
  • Niels Bohr
  • Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896–1988), discovered the hydrogen Brackett series.
  • Bertram Brockhouse
  • John Browning
  • Robert Bunsen

C

  • Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957)
  • Arthur Compton
  • William Crookes
  • Robert Curl
  • Clair Cameron Patterson

D

  • Louis de Broglie
  • Peter Debye

E

  • Richard R. Ernst

F

  • Edward Robert Festing
  • James Franck
  • Willis H. Flygare

G

  • Roy J. Glauber
  • Walter Gordy
  • G. V. Pawan Kumar

H

  • 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

I

J

  • Derek Jackson (1906–1982), made the first spectroscopic determination of a nuclear magnetic spin.
  • Pierre Janssen

K

  • Michael Kasha
  • Alfred Kastler
  • Gustav Kirchhoff
  • Harry Kroto

L

  • Willis Eugene Lamb
  • George Downing Liveing (1827–1924)
  • Norman Lockyer
  • Derek Long
  • Hendrik Lorentz
  • Theodore Lyman

M

  • Alfred Maddock
  • Gary E. Martin
  • Thomas Melvill
  • Allan Merchant, spectral properties of the Baslescu-Lenard Equation
  • Robert Andrews Millikan
  • Edward Morley
  • Rudolf Mössbauer

N

O

P

  • August Herman Pfund (1879–1949), discovered the Pfund hydrogen spectral series.
  • Max Planck (1858–1947)
  • Bill Price
  • Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

Q

R

  • 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

S

  • 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.

T

  • William Fox Talbot
  • Matthew Pothen Thekaekara
  • Charles Hard Townes

U

V

  • Joseph von Fraunhofer
  • Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

W

  • Charles Wheatstone
  • Kurt Wüthrich

X

  • Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, (born 1962), chemist at Harvard University, pioneer in the field of single molecule microscopy and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy microscopy.

Y

  • Charles Augustus Young (1834–1908), solar spectroscopist astronomer.

Z

  • Pieter Zeeman
  • Ahmed Zewail
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