Johannes Rydberg AKA Johannes Robert Rydberg Born: 8-Nov-1854 Birthplace: Hamstad, Sweden Died: 28-Dec-1919 Location of death: Lund, Sweden Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Sweden Executive summary: Rydberg constant A student of spectroscopy, it was Rydberg who determined the mathematical relationship between lines on the spectrograph and the effective mass of the hydrogen atom. This turns out to be one of the most accurately known physical constants in nature. University: BS, University of Lund (1875) University: PhD Mathematics, University of Lund (1879) Professor: University of Lund (1882-1919)
Author of books:
Recherches sur la constitution des spectres d'émission des éléments chimiques (1890, physics)
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