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Guglielmo Marconi developed wireless telegraphy by coordinating the transmitter, propagation and receiver as one experimental system. His lecture describes a coherer containing nickel and silver filings, connected to a tuned circuit and a relay. The relay operates a recorder and a tapper that resets the detector, allowing successive signals to be registered. Long and short wave trains encode telegraphic signs. Improving detector reliability and resonance of electrical circuits therefore mattered alongside producing radiation at the transmitter.^[ref]

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Wireless telegraphy links the dynamics of a transmitter, propagation and the response of a receiver. A successful detector reading depends on that complete chain, rather than on the transmitter alone.

Philipp Lenard investigated cathode rays by allowing them to leave a discharge tube through a thin window. Studying their effects beyond the original discharge made their penetration, absorption and ability to ionize other material experimentally accessible. These measurements helped separate the properties of the rays from the particular gas discharge that generated them. His lecture describes the apparatus and the comparison of different materials, connecting an invisible beam with measurable fluorescence and electrical effects.^[ref]

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Wien's displacement law connects a thermal spectrum's peak position to temperature. Specifying whether the spectrum is expressed per unit wavelength or per unit frequency is essential to stating which peak is meant.

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Lippmann photography records colour through the depth structure of an exposed emulsion. Its account connects a standing wave to a reflected optical spectrum.

An experimental atomic physicist whose work concerns the Zeeman effect and the Paschen-Back effect. At sufficiently strong magnetic fields, magnetic coupling competes with the internal coupling of angular momenta, changing the pattern of spectral lines. His book with Alfred Landé joins this atomic interpretation to the practical apparatus and analysis needed to resolve the splittings.^[ref]

Friedrich Paschen investigated atomic spectra in strong magnetic fields. The Paschen-Back effect, associated with his work with Ernst Back, occurs when the external magnetic interaction competes with internal spin-orbit coupling. The weak-field description through total angular momentum then ceases to provide the simplest labels. Separate orbital angular momentum and spin projections become useful, changing the pattern of spectral lines. Comparing weak- and strong-field patterns tests the hierarchy of interactions within an atom.^[ref]

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Alfred Landé organized the magnetic response of coupled atomic angular momenta. The Landé g-factor relates a magnetic energy shift to the projection of total angular momentum, accounting for both orbital angular momentum and spin. For LS coupling, $g_J=1+[J(J+1)+S(S+1)-L(L+1)]/[2J(J+1)]$ when $J\ne 0$, neglecting the small correction to the electron spin g-factor. For $L=0$ and $J=S=1/2$, it gives $g_J=2$. Different atomic terms therefore split differently in a weak magnetic field.^[ref]

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An atomic physicist who coauthored a NIST reference on atomic spectroscopy with William C. Martin. Its treatment of transition probabilities distinguishes the probability of an atomic transition from the population of its initial energy level. This matters because the strength of an observed spectral line depends on both atomic properties and the conditions of the emitting sample.^[ref]

An atomic physicist who coauthored a NIST compendium of atomic spectroscopy with Wolfgang Wiese. It connects the labeling of energy levels with spectral lines, transition strengths and selection rules. These conventions allow a measured spectrum to be compared with tabulated atomic data without confusing a level designation, a wavelength and an intensity.^[ref]

A radiation physicist who coauthored NIST reference tables for X-ray and gamma ray interactions with John H. Hubbell. The mass energy-absorption data use his calculations to account for how much photon energy is retained after interaction processes. This supports radiation-energy deposition calculations alongside the separate mass attenuation coefficient used for beam transmission.^[ref]

A radiation physicist who coauthored NIST tables of mass attenuation coefficients and mass energy-absorption coefficients with Stephen M. Seltzer. The tables connect X-ray and gamma ray photon energy to interactions in elements and mixtures. They distinguish removal of photons from a beam from absorption of their energy, a difference needed when calculating shielding or deposited radiation energy.^[ref]

A particle physicist who wrote a historical analysis of the Stern-Gerlach experiment. It distinguishes the experiment's original proposal and interpretation from its later connection with electron spin, and discusses the different problem of performing an analogous measurement on free electrons. This helps prevent later quantum concepts from being read back into the original experimental argument.^[ref]

Martin Bauer coauthored a particle-physics treatment of dark matter with Tilman Plehn. Their calculations connect proposed particle interactions with four distinct tests: cosmological abundance, indirect radiation signals, direct scattering and collider production. A model must relate these through common masses and coupling constants, rather than treating each possible signal independently. The text makes that connection explicit, showing how the same hypothetical interaction can be constrained by very different measurements.^[ref]

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Otto Stern developed molecular-beam methods that infer microscopic properties from controlled particle trajectories. With Walther Gerlach, he sent a neutral silver beam through a magnetic field gradient, producing discrete deposited components. The beam's translational motion carries information about its internal magnetic moment projection to a macroscopic detector. Changing the magnetic field geometry or the beam preparation changes that mapping, making the apparatus part of the interpretation of the Stern-Gerlach experiment.^[ref][ref]

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The Stern-Gerlach experiment with Walther Gerlach tested the deflection of a neutral silver atomic beam in a nonuniform magnetic field.

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The early two-stage electron microscope experiment investigates how magnetic electron lenses can form a magnified image. The electron microscope article distinguishes magnification from electron microscope resolution.

Pieter Zeeman observed changes in emitted light when its source was placed in a magnetic field. Resolving the components and their wave polarization connected the spectral pattern with the direction of observation. The magnetic field changes atomic energy levels, while selection rules determine which polarized components are visible. Comparing observations along and across the magnetic field therefore tests more than a simple increase in line width: it connects the Zeeman effect to both atomic structure and experimental geometry.^[ref][ref]

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The Zeeman effect connects a laboratory magnetic field to the frequencies and wave polarization of light emitted by chemical atoms. Its experimental history makes the viewing direction and spectral resolving power essential to the inference.

A physicist who investigated magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. He built delicate balances, electrometers and piezoelectric crystals; this work on instruments helped make weak electrical effects measurable. With Marie Curie, he investigated radioactive substances under difficult laboratory conditions. The Curie ionization-current measurement illustrates how such instrumentation can turn a small signal into a quantitative comparison.^[ref]

A physicist and chemist whose investigation of radioactivity joined sensitive measurement to chemical separation. She moved from Warsaw to Paris to study, later becoming a professor of physics. The Curie ionization-current measurement shows the experimental craft behind the work: balancing a tiny electric current against a calibrated electric charge. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and received the 1911 prize in chemistry.^[ref]

A physicist whose uranium experiments helped establish radioactivity. His 1896 photographic plate tests separated exposure to the material from immediate illumination; the cautious interpretation in his report is part of the story of Becquerel's uranium-radiation experiment. He held the chair of applied physics at the Paris Museum of Natural History.^[ref]

Walther Gerlach and Otto Stern sent a neutral silver atomic beam through a nonuniform magnetic field. Its deposited trace separated into discrete components instead of the continuous range expected from an elementary classical orientation model. The magnetic field gradient converts different magnetic moment projections into distinct trajectories; a uniform magnetic field lacks the required separating force. The Stern-Gerlach experiment thus makes the field geometry essential to the observation, while its modern spin interpretation differs from the original expectations.^[ref]

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The Stern-Gerlach experiment, with Otto Stern, sent a neutral silver atomic beam through a nonuniform magnetic field and recorded its deposition pattern.