Charlotte Moore Sitterly Born 24 Sep 1898; died 3 Mar 1990 at age - TopicsExpress



          

Charlotte Moore Sitterly Born 24 Sep 1898; died 3 Mar 1990 at age 91. American astrophysicist who organized, analyzed, and published definitive books on the solar spectrum and spectral line multiplets. From 1945 to age 90, she conducted this work at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards and the Naval Research Laboratory. She detected that technetium, an unstable element (previously known only as a result of laboratory experiments with nuclear reactions) exists in nature. She made major contributions to the compilation of tables for atomic-energy levels associated with optical spectra, which are now standard reference material. As instruments carried in space rockets provided new data in the ultraviolet, she extended these tables beyond the optical range. She was awarded the Bruce Medal in 1990.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:03:34 +0000

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