Ångström, Anders Jonas (1814-74)
Abstract
Physicist, born in Lödgö, Sweden. He was keeper of the observatory and professor at Uppsala where he studied heat, magnetism and optics and examined the spectra of the Sun and auroras. His name is commemorated with the angstrom unit, 10-10 m, which is used for measuring wavelengths of light and x-rays, and the separation of atoms in molecules and crystals....
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/3428
- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE3428.
- Keywords:
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- History and Archaeoastronomy;
- Biographies