Experimental infrared spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1063/1.3067195
The infrared spectrum was discovered by Herschel in 1800. He found that a thermometer was heated by invisible radiations when he placed it beyond the red end of a solar spectrum formed by a glass prism. From this primitive discrimination between the visible and invisible, experimental physicists have refined their procedures until now the
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John Strong, Johns Hopkins University.
