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Also Known As spectral analysis

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Balmer series of hydrogen
saturation spectroscopy
refraction of light by a prism
Diagram illustrating Huygens' principle with labeled plane and spherical wave fronts on the left, showing how each point on a wave front acts as a source of expanding spherical waves, and a depiction on the right of diffracted waves emerging from a transmission grating as curved lines formed by the combination of secondary wavelets.
electron density functions for four hydrogen atom states
A periodic table of the elements with element symbols and atomic numbers, organized by subshells being filled as atomic number increases; subshells are labeled in the left column, and the table highlights groups, periods, and electron configurations.
potential energy curves
molecular orbital energy-level diagrams
tunable laser absorption spectrometer
energy-level diagram
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Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
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Swedish physicist
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd.
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
American astrophysicist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Moerner, W.E.
W.E. Moerner
American chemist
Pierre Janssen, detail from an engraving
Pierre Janssen
French astronomer
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Kirchhoff, Gustav
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist
Arthur Schawlow
Arthur L. Schawlow
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Nicolaas Bloembergen
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Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
Swings, Pol
Pol Swings
Belgian astronomer
William Huggins
William Huggins
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Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
British astronomer
Robert Williams Wood
Robert Williams Wood
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Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist
Johannes Stark.
Johannes Stark
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