Experimental infrared spectroscopy
APR 01, 1951
Infrared spectroscopy, a field of physics which has passed through many periods of romantic discovery, has in recent years been of great use to applied research—not only in physics but in many adjacent sciences.
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.
© 1951. American Institute of Physics
