List of spectroscopists
Articles about notable spectroscopists.
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- Roman Balabin
 - Johann Balmer
 - G. Michael Bancroft
 - Charles Glover Barkla
 - Nikolay Basov
 - Jane Blankgen
 - Niels Bohr
 - Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896–1988), discovered the hydrogen Brackett series.
 - Bertram Brockhouse
 - John Browning
 - Robert Bunsen
 
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- Roy J. Glauber
 - Walter Gordy
 - G. V. Pawan Kumar
 
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- 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
 
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J
- Derek Jackson (1906–1982), made the first spectroscopic determination of a nuclear magnetic spin.
 - Pierre Janssen
 
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- 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
 
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- August Herman Pfund (1879–1949), discovered the Pfund hydrogen spectral series.
 - Max Planck (1858–1947)
 - Bill Price
 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
 
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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.
 
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- Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, (born 1962), chemist at Harvard University, pioneer in the field of single molecule microscopy and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy microscopy.
 
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- Charles Augustus Young (1834–1908), solar spectroscopist astronomer.