Alfred Perot Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-31
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Portrait of Alfred Perot
. Eugène Pirou (1841–1909), before 1900; cropped and rotated version hosted by Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in countries with a copyright term of life plus 100 years or less; Commons Public Domain Mark. Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Anders Jonas Ångström Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-31
A physicist appointed professor at Uppsala in 1858, whose research included spectroscopy.[ref]
Figure 1. . Hulda Schenson; Vetenskapsakademiens porträttsamling. Public domain (PD-Art / Public Domain Mark 1.0, as stated on Commons). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Section 7, SIS, in the institutional ASCA technical description, Appendix E. Describes silicon electron-hole generation at approximately 3.65 eV per pair, clocked transfer, collection losses and imaging spectroscopy.
Astronomer Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-18
Chris A. Michaels Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-24
Daniel A. Steck Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-10-31
Electron spectroscopy Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-20
Spectroscopy based on the energy distribution of electrons, including photoemission spectroscopy.
Fraunhofer lines 2026-10-31
Dark absorption features in the solar spectrum, mapped and labelled by Joseph von Fraunhofer. They give reproducible wavelength landmarks for spectroscopy and optical measurements. Solar and terrestrial absorbers contribute different features to a ground-observed solar spectrum.