Theodore Lyman

Theodore Lyman ( born November 23, 1874 in Boston, Massachusetts, † October 11, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American physicist.

Lyman was educated at Harvard, where he taught as a professor from 1921. In 1906 he discovered the spectral series named after him ( the Lyman series ) of the hydrogen atom. In 1970, the International Astronomical Union named in his honor a lunar crater after him.

  • University teachers (Harvard University)
  • Physicist ( 20th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1874
  • Died in 1954
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