A History of Spectroscopy retraces the major stages in the growth of the various spectroscopic methods from their origins, as well as the most recent advances and the hopes they raise for future technological progress. With its multidisciplinary aspects, it embodies a unique effort which has no equivalent in the published literature.?
Emile Bi?mont is Honorary Research Director of the Belgian FNRS, Honorary professor of the University of Mons (Belgium) and Emeritus Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. His fields of interest are atomic and molecular spectroscopy with applications in laser and plasma physics. In astrophysics, he has been involved in solar and stellar physics. Interested also by popularization of science, he has published more than 370 publications including 16 books.
Section I From Rainbow Colors to Laser Light
Chapter 1 Units and Conversion Factors
Chapter 2 The Precursors of Spectroscopy
Chapter 3 The Contributions of the Master of Woolsthorpe
Chapter 4 The First Spectroscopists and the Birth of Spectral Analysis
Chapter 5 Prisms and Diffraction Gratings
Chapter 6 Interferometers and Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
Chapter 7 Spectral Lines and Series
Chapter 8 The Beginnings of Molecular Spectroscopy
Chapter 9 The Sun, the Stars and their Spectra
Chapter 10 W. Huggins and the Pioneers of Celestial Spectroscopy
Chapter 11 Laser Spectroscopy
Section II From Laser Light to Synchrotron Radiation
Chapter 12 Beyond the Visible: the Long Wavelengths
Chapter 13 Microwave Spectroscopy
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