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The Hydrogen Atom (An Historical Account of Studies of Its Spectrum)

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I was honoured and pleased by the invitation from Professor Bassani to give this introductory talk. But I must confess that as I pondered upon the task I had undertaken, my heart began to sink. I have lived through the last forty years of the story, but the active history of the subject takes us back another hundred and forty years, so I went to that great source-book, KAYSER’s Handbuch der Spectroscopie [1] and that is where most of my early references come from.

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  1. Piazza dei Cavalieri, Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56100, Pisa, Italy

    G. Franco Bassani

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli, Pad. 20 Mestra d’Oltremare, I-80125, Napoli, Italy

    Massimo Inguscio

  3. Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Ludwig-Prandtl-Straße 10, Postfach 1513, D-8046, Garching, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Theodor W. Hänsch

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Series, G.W. (1989). The Hydrogen Atom (An Historical Account of Studies of Its Spectrum). In: Bassani, G.F., Inguscio, M., Hänsch, T.W. (eds) The Hydrogen Atom. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88421-4_1

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