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Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal (12 September 1895 – 7 March 1959) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in
solid state physics Solid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy. It is the largest branch of condensed matter physics. Solid-state physics studies how the l ...
,"The historical development of quantum theory", by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg
p. 327, biographical note
/ref> known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering of photons (the Raman effect).A. Smekal. 1943. Zur Quantentheorie der Dispersion. ''Die Naturwissenschaften'' 11(43): 873-875 . Adolf Smekal studied at the Vienna College of Technology (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smekal, Adolf 1895 births 1959 deaths Austrian physicists TU Wien alumni University of Graz alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academics of the University of Graz Academics of the University of Vienna University of Halle faculty