Abstract

A history of Soviet spectroscopy is given, with special emphasis on various areas indicating the earliest workers in each specialty and their principal successors; for example, the work of Rozhdestvenskii (anomalous dispersion), Fok (self-consistant field calculations), Terenin (photochemistry, atomic beams), Mandelstam (combination scattering), Vavilov (luminescence, quantum properties of light), Cerenkov (radiation), Chaika (atomic lifetimes), Gross (excitons), and Volkenstein (molecular vibrations).

© 1967 Optical Society of America

Studies of Shortwave Solar Radiation in the U.S.S.R.

S. L. Mandelstam
Appl. Opt. 6(11) 1834-1844 (1967)

Investigations in the Soviet Union of Induced Combination Scattering of Radiation

M. M. Sushchinskii
Appl. Opt. 6(11) 1805-1813 (1967)

A Crossed Interferometric–Spectrographic Method of Studying Physical Processes

A. M. Shukhtin
Appl. Opt. 6(11) 1855-1860 (1967)

Highlights of Twenty Years of Optical Space Research

Richard Tousey
Appl. Opt. 6(12) 2044-2070 (1967)

Plasma Spectroscopy in the Vacuum Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Regions

R. C. Elton and N. V. Roth
Appl. Opt. 6(12) 2071-2078 (1967)