C60+ in space – a 28-year detective story about the Diffuse Interstellar Bands – Part 4
The early (mid 1990s) work on the electronic spectroscopy was carried out by John Maier's group, trapping C60+ in a neon matrix in this apparatus.
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John Maier's team at the University of Basel solved the riddle of C60+ in 2015. In this brief view Colin Byfleet looks at the unique apparatus used in John's work.
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The presentation the solution to this long-standing puzzle occurred at a most serendipitous moment. John Maier, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel reveals the momentous details.
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John Maier, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel, describes the journey from the prediction of C60+ in 1987, through tentative assignment of its electronic spectrum by Radioastronomy, measurement in a neon-matrix and finally, in....
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Naresh Dalal is interviewed by Harry Kroto about his eventful life in Chemical Physics.
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Naresh Dalal gives the Lawton Lecture at FSU, describing the many ways in which the study of species with unpaired electrons can help in our understanding of materials and biochemical processes.
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The spectra of atoms and molecules in space: in nebulae, in the interstellar medium (ISM) , H 21cm radiation. The structure of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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A survey of the variety and usefulness of the wide-ranging techniques which incorporate the name spectroscopy.
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