HISTMonday, August 20, 2007

8:50 AM-11:55 AM Seaport -- Plaza C, Oral
Classic Chemistry Books of the Twentieth Century: Spectroscopy
Official:Ronald K. Smeltzer
8:50 AMIntroductory Remarks
9:00 AMSpectroscopy and the quantum revolution: Old quantum theory gives way to quantum mechanics
Kenneth R. Metz
9:40 AMSpectroscopy and the periodic table: Tribute to Friedrich Hund's Linienspektren und periodisches System der Elemente
William Barry Jensen
10:20 AMIntermission
10:35 AMGerhard Herzberg: Physicist, chemist and astronomer
Donald C. Morton
11:15 AMRaising the bar for those who followed: Henry Rowland and the solar spectrum
Steven C. Turner

Classic Chemistry Books of the Twentieth Century: Spectroscopy -- Next Session

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007