List of spectroscopists

A

• William de Wiveleslie Abney
• David Alter
• Anders Jonas Ångström

  B

• Roman Balabin
• Johann Balmer
• G. Michael Bancroft
• Charles Glover Barkla
• Nikolay Basov
• Jane Blankenship
• Nicolaas Bloembergen
• Niels Bohr
• Frederick Sumner Brackett, discovered the hydrogen Brackett series.
• Bertram Brockhouse
• John Browning
• Robert Bunsen

  C

• Miguel A. Catalán
• Arthur Compton
• William Crookes
• Robert Curl
• Clair Cameron Patterson

  D

• Louis de Broglie
• Peter Debye

  E

• Richard R. Ernst

  F

• Edward Robert Festing
• James Franck
• Willis H. Flygare

  G

• Roy J. Glauber
• Walter Gordy
• G.V.Pawan Kumar

  H

• August Hagenbach
• John L. Hall
• Theodor W. Hänsch
• Werner Heisenberg
• Brian Henderson
• John Herschel
• William Herschel
• Gerhard Herzberg
• Victor Francis Hess
• Antony Hewish
• William Huggins

  I

J

• Derek Jackson, made the first spectroscopic determination of a nuclear magnetic spin.
• Pierre Janssen

  K

• Michael Kasha
• Alfred Kastler
• Gustav Kirchhoff
• Harry Kroto

  L

• Willis Eugene Lamb
• George Downing Liveing
• Norman Lockyer
• Derek Long
• Hendrik Lorentz
• Theodore Lyman

  M

• Alfred Maddock
• Gary E. Martin
• Thomas Melvill
• Allan Merchant, spectral properties of the Baslescu-Lenard Equation
• Robert Andrews Millikan
• Edward Morley
• Rudolf Mössbauer

  N

O

P

• August Herman Pfund, discovered the Pfund hydrogen spectral series.
• Max Planck
• Bill Price
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

  Q

R

• Isidor Isaac Rabi
• Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
• Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.
• Carl David Tolmé Runge, Runge–Kutta method, Runge's phenomenon, Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
• Johannes Rydberg
• Martin Ryle

  S

• Victor Schumann, discovered the vacuum ultraviolet.
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow
• Angelo Secchi
• Kai Siegbahn
• Manne Siegbahn
• Richard Smalley
• Johannes Stark

  T

• William Fox Talbot
• Matthew Pothen Thekaekara
• Charles Hard Townes

  U

V

• Joseph von Fraunhofer
• Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

  W

• Charles Wheatstone
• Kurt Wüthrich

  X

• Xiaoliang Sunney Xie,, chemist at Harvard University, pioneer in the field of single molecule microscopy and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy microscopy.

  Y

• Charles Augustus Young, solar spectroscopist astronomer.

  Z

• Pieter Zeeman
• Ahmed Zewail