Atomic Spectroscopy - A Compendium of Basic Ideas, Notation, Data, and Formulas by William C. Martin and Wolfgang Wiese Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
By William C. Martin and Wolfgang Wiese. NIST compendium; individual pages have separate revision histories.
Handbook of Basic Atomic Spectroscopic Data by Jean E. Sansonetti and William C. Martin Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
By Jean E. Sansonetti and William C. Martin. NIST Standard Reference Database 108; data last updated November 2013.
Wolfgang Wiese Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
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]