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Spectral Lines from a Dying Nation: The Molecular Spectrometry of Hertha Sponer.
It is hard to imagine a time and place outside of Charles Dickens’s Revolutionary France that more embodies the spirit of the Best of Times and Worst of Times than early 20th century Göttingen. At its best, in the 1920s, it boasted a heady selection of the planet’s greatest mathematicians and physicists, clustered together to rewrite entirely the rules for atomic and molecular structure and behavior. At its worst, in the 1930s, it gave itself over to the anti-Semitic raving
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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