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