biography
| name: |
Balmer, Johann Jakob
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pronunciation:
[balmer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1825–98)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Lausanne, W Switzerland. He derived a formula for frequencies of hydrogen lines in the visible spectrum. The Balmer series is the atomic spectrum of hydrogen in the visible and near ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. |
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