Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal (12 September 1895 – 7 March 1959) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in solid state physics,[1] known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering of photons (the Raman effect).[2]

Adolf Smekal studied at the Vienna College of Technology (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).

References

  1. ^ "The historical development of quantum theory", by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg, p. 327, biographical note
  2. ^ A. Smekal. 1943. Zur Quantentheorie der Dispersion. Die Naturwissenschaften 11(43): 873-875 doi:10.1007/BF01576902.
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