Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.
Pieter ZeemanAbout author
- Author's profession: Physicist
- Nationality: dutch
- Born: May 25, 1865
- Died: October 9, 1943
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