November Historical Events in Spectroscopy

November Historical Events In Spectroscopy

by Leopold May, Catholic University

November 4, 1958 - The Society for Applied Spectroscopy, now the New York Section, was formed on this day in New York City.
November 6, 1857 - The first chief chemist of the US Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), William A. Noyes, was born on this date. He served as editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 1902 to 1917.
November 7, 1888 - Chandrasekhara V. Raman who discovered the Raman effect for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1930, was born on this day.
November 11, 1925 - The discovery of cosmic rays was announced on this day in Madison, Wisconsin.
November 13, 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, who did research in electromagnetic theory and kinetic theory of gases, was born on this date.
November 23, 1887 - Henry G. J. Moseley, born on this day, discovered that the x-ray frequency is related to atomic number of the element in 1913. He was killed in World War I.
November 26, 1934 - Beckman Instruments, Inc. was incorporated on this day.
November 27, 1914 - Bryce Crawford, Honorary Member of SAS, was born on this day. He did research in infrared spectroscopy.
November 29, 1936 - The birthday of Yuan T. Lee who used a specially designed mass spectrometer that could separate and identify reaction products. He shared the Nobel Prize in 1986 with Dudley R. Herschbach and John C. Polanyi.

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Last Modified: November 9, 1999