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Europhysics News
Volume 48, Number 5-6, September-December 2017
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| Page(s) | 38 - 40 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2017507 | |
| Published online | 22 November 2017 | |
A Tribute to Manne Siegbahn
University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Spectroscopy came to dominate the 19th century, with a crucial role for Swedish physicists. It was Anders Ångström who introduced the tenmillionth part of a millimeter as the wavelength unit (1868), a unit that was adopted by Rowland for his tables of the solar spectral lines (1887-1893). Janne Rydberg, then, followed in Ångström's footsteps in searching for relations between the emission spectra of the elements and their place in the Periodic Table. Röntgen's new rays became a next challenge, demanding a form of spectroscopy of their own. Manne Siegbahn, an assistant of Rydberg, then, devised appropriate instruments of ever increasing precision.
© European Physical Society, EDP Sciences, 2017
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