Died 1874-06-21.
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Anders Jonas Ångström
Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
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science · Swedish physicist (1814–1874) · physicist · astronomer · university teacher · also Anders Jonas Ångström, Anders Ångström, Anders Jonas Angstrom, Anders Angstrom, Angstrom, Ångström
Born 13 August 1814 · Died 21 June 1874 · Q187258
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1874· 1 entry
1872· 2 entries
Won Rumford Medal (1872).
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Contains a fundamental principle of spectrum analysis, and though overlooked for a number of years it entitles him to rank as one of the founders of spectroscopy
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1870· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1870).
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1868· 1 entry
Published his great map of the normal solar spectrum in Recherches sur le spectre solaire, including detailed measurements of more than 1000 spectral lines, which long remained authoritative in questions of wavelength
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1867· 1 entry
To examine the spectrum of the aurora borealis, and detected and measured the characteristic bright line in its yellow-green region; but he was mistaken in supposing that this same line, which is often called by his name
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1858· 1 entry
Succeeded Adolph Ferdinand Svanberg in the chair of physics at Uppsala
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1853· 1 entry
Not only pointed out that the electric spark yields two superposed spectra, one from the metal of the electrode and the other from the gas in which it passes, but deduced from Leonhard Euler's theory of resonance that
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1852· 1 entry
Ångström formulated in Optiska undersökningar (Optical investigations), a law of absorption, later modified somewhat and known as Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation
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1850· 1 entry
The Royal Society in 1870 and the Institut de France in 1873
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1845· 1 entry
Ångström married Augusta Bedoire (1820–1906)
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1842· 1 entry
Went to the Stockholm Observatory to gain experience in practical astronomical work, and the following year he was appointed keeper of the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
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1833· 1 entry
And was educated at Uppsala University, where in 1839 he became docent in physics
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1814· 1 entry
Born 1814-08-13.
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