Lyman series
Serie de Lyman
- Date
- 1906 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Theodore Lyman
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A series of ultraviolet spectral lines of the hydrogen atom corresponding to electron transitions from higher levels down to the ground state (n=1).
Discovered by Theodore Lyman at Harvard University.
What it led to
- Experimental confirmation of the Bohr atomic model
- Advances in ultraviolet spectroscopy and astrophysics