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Stark reported that an electric field separates selected gas spectral lines into polarized components, with a detailed 1914 experimental account following his 1913 announcement.
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Stark reported that an electric field separates selected gas spectral lines into polarized components, with a detailed 1914 experimental account following his 1913 announcement. The contribution is the reported splitting of specified spectral lines in an applied electric field, with historical instrumental and interpretation limits. It is not a complete quantum derivation or a universal linear splitting law for every atom/field regime. Parallel and later theoretical/experimental work remain separate.
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Contributors
- J. Stark · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
- J. Stark, Beobachtungen uber den Effekt des elektrischen Feldes auf Spektrallinien. I. Quereffekt, original 1914 author paper
- Wiley Crossref deposit for Stark 1914 detailed paper
- J. Stark, Observation of the Separation of Spectral Lines by an Electric Field, Nature 92,401
- Leone, Paoletti and Robotti, A Simultaneous Discovery: The Case of Johannes Stark and Antonino Lo Surdo
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