Pfund series
Serie de Pfund
- Date
- 1924 · confidence medium
- Place
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Credited to
- August Herman Pfund
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A series of hydrogen spectral lines corresponding to electron transitions down to the fifth energy level, described by physicist August Herman Pfund and located in the mid-infrared.
What it led to
- Completion of the hydrogen spectral-series scheme
- Use in infrared astronomical spectroscopy
- Quantitative confirmation of the Bohr model