Spectroscopy

Scientists

100

This scientist discovered that white light contained colors of the rainbow

Sir Issac Newton

200

His discovery of absorption lines paved way for the field of astronomical spectroscopy

Joseph von Fraunhofer

300

He is credited with discovering infrared light

Sir William Herschel

Spectrometers

100

Basic tool that refracts light and has at least one angled side

Prism

200

He created the modern spectroscope

Joseph von Fraunhofer

300

FTIR

Fourier-transform infrared

Astronomical Spectroscopy

100

The change in waves when the source and observer change distance

Doppler Effect

200

The first tool to observe stellar spectrum

Spectroscope

300

Red Shift

What is waves increasing in distance / waves get wider