biography
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| (1874–1954)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He taught at Harvard (1907–25), then became director of Harvard's Jefferson Physical Laboratory (1910–47). He discovered the fundamental Lyman series of hydrogen wavelengths in the vacuum ultraviolet (1914), and continued to investigate the range of ultraviolet spectra to increasingly shorter wavelengths. |
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