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Timeline of Spectroscopy

The timeline from 1800 to 1910 gives light to some of the instruments involved in major discoveries, the major discoveries themselves, and some new, influential people in the science of spectroscopy.  

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Source Materials

  1. Becker, Barbara J. Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 

  2. Hearnshaw, John B. The Analysis of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Spectroscopy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.  

  3. “Georg Merz.” prabook.com. Accessed November 2, 2022. https://prabook.com/web/georg.merz/2298603. 

  4. “Papers of Great American Physicists.” Niels Bohr Library & Archives. Accessed November 2, 2022. https://history.aip.org/exhibits/gap/Rowland/Rowland.html. 

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