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Raman effect Compton effect spin-flip scattering scattering angle inelastic scattering elastic scattering Rayleigh scattering Tyndall effect anti-Stokes lines Stokes lines radiation chemical bonding radioactivity nuclear fission catalysis nuclear fusion deformation and flow wave motion vibration friction

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John Tyndall.

John Tyndall

Irish physicist

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Maurice Goldhaber

American physicist

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Clifford G. Shull

American physicist

Herschbach, Dudley R.

Dudley R. Herschbach

American chemist and educator

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Hendrik Anthony Kramers

Dutch physicist

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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