Spectroscopy, heat theory

Spectroscopic Methods, [Biological] Applications of Spectroscopy, EPR, Recent Advances in (Smaller). Spectroscopy, Infrared, Use in Biology (Lecomte). Spectroscopy of Transition-Group Complexes (Jorgensen) Statistical-Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes. X. The Heat of Transport in Binary Liquid Systems (Bearman, Kirkwood, Fixman). ... 

In his interesting book, The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics, Jammer15 reports that in 1908, A. Haas submitted his dissertation on quantum theory to the University of Vienna. It was probably the first application of quantum theory to the calculation of energy levels. However, his contribution was rejected since the application of the quantum theory, then considered a part of the theory of heat, to spectroscopy was considered ridiculous. 

Tompkins (1978) concentrates on the fundamental and experimental aspects of the chemisorption of gases on metals. The book covers techniques for the preparation and maintenance of clean metal surfaces, the basic principles of the adsorption process, thermal accommodation and molecular beam scattering, desorption phenomena, adsorption isotherms, heats of chemisorption, thermodynamics of chemisorption, statistical thermodynamics of adsorption, electronic theory of metals, electronic theory of metal surfaces, perturbation of surface electronic properties by chemisorption, low energy electron diffraction (LEED), infra-red spectroscopy of chemisorbed molecules, field emmission microscopy, field ion microscopy, mobility of species, electron impact auger spectroscopy. X-ray and ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy, ion neutralization spectroscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, appearance potential spectroscopy, electronic properties of adsorbed layers. 

The practice of analytical spectroscopy preceded the development of the theories concerning the origin of spectra by a number of years. Bunsen and Kirchhoff studied spectra produced by salts and salt solutions heated in flames and noted the characteristic spectral line emissions of a number of elements. They also observed that substances absorb energy most strongly at the same wavelengths at which emission occurs. Their results led Kirchhoff to state that the power of emission is equal to the power of absorption for all... 

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