List of spectroscopists

Articles about notable spectroscopists.

A

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

B

• 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

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

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

P

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

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

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

See also

• List of chemists
• List of physicists