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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who uses the spectroscope; one skilled in spectroscopy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.

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  • noun A scientist specialising in spectroscopy.

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Examples

  • The dream of the spectroscopist is to be able to study a single atom or ion under constant conditions for

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 - Presentation Speech 1989

  • I found out there was a new guy in the department, a guy named David Klenerman, a laser spectroscopist.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • They simply insisted that before the new element could be given any official status, it had to be successfully isolated, its atomic weight had to be measured, and its spectroscopic characteristics analyzed. 20 The chemist Gustave Bémont, Pierre's close collaborator and director of the chemistry laboratory next door in EPCI, joined the team and the spectroscopist Eugéne Demarçay was also enlisted as a collaborator.

    Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 2007

  • Jonathan Tennyson, Professor of Physics, Head of Department, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College, London and an extremely eminent near infrared spectroscopist, provided an interesting popular summary of some of these issues in 2003.

    Water Vapor #1 « Climate Audit 2005

  • I got out into the greenbelt square in front of the hotel on the heels of Mapes, the team's multisense spectroscopist.

    Dreamfall Vinge, Joan D. 1996

  • More recently, I had also the pleasure to closely collaborate with Prof. Arthur Schweiger, an extremely innovative EPR spectroscopist, in the development of pulsed EPR and ENDOR techniques.

    Richard R. Ernst - Autobiography 1992

  • The possibility of observing a single atom or ion - a long-felt dream of a spectroscopist - has recently been realised largely thanks to the work of the Physics Laureates.

    Press Release: The 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics 1989

  • Herzberg, is generally considered to be the world's foremost molecular spectroscopist and his large institute in Ottawa is the indisputed center for such research.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971 - Presentation Speech 1972

  • The pressure, the temperature, the state of motion of the object we are observing, all make a difference, and one of the most laborious tasks of the modern spectroscopist is to disentangle these effects from one another.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • Mr. Huggins, the spectroscopist; Sir Erastus Ommaney, a retired

    The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872

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