Adolf Smekal

Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal (September 12, 1895, Vienna, Austria — March 7, 1959, Graz, Austria) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in solid state physics,[1] known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering of photons (Smekal-Raman effect).[2]

Adolf Smekal studied at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).

References

  1. ^ "The historical development of quantum theory", by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg, p. 327, biographical note
  2. ^ <A. Smekal: Zur Quantentheorie der Dispersion. In: Die Naturwissenschaften. 11, Nr. 43, 1923, S. 873-875, doi:10.1007/BF01576902.