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Anders Jonas Ångström
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Swedish physicist
Anders Jonas Ångström was a 19th-century Swedish physicist known for his work in spectroscopy and the study of light. The unit of length called the angstrom (Å), used to measure very small distances like the wavelengths of light, is named after him in recognition of his contributions to science.
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- Anders
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- Sweden
- Place of death
- Uppsala
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- university teacher
- Educated at
- Uppsala University
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- Uppsala University
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Field of work
- astronomy
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- 1814-08-13
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- 1874-06-21
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Encyclopedic overview
Anders Jonas Ångström (/ˈæŋstrəm/; Swedish: [ˈânːdɛʂ ˈjûːnas ˈɔ̂ŋːstrœm]; 13 August 1814 – 21 June 1874) was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
Ångström is also well known for his studies of astrophysics, heat transfer, terrestrial magnetism, and the aurora borealis. In 1852, Ångström formulated in Optiska undersökningar (Optical investigations), a law of absorption, later modified somewhat and known as Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation.
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