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FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS

The prediction and discovery of Rayleigh line fine structure

I. L. Fabelinskiĭ

P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The history of the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of the Rayleigh line fine structure (which belongs to one of the most important phenomena in optics and physics of condensed matter) is discussed along with the history of first publications concerning this topic.

PACS: 01.65.+g, 33.20.-t

Received: April 28, 1999

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0170.200001f.0093

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2000, 43:1, 89–103

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