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Optical spectroscopy by Hantaro Nagaoka – Pioneer nuclear structure study

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Hantaro Nagaoka is a Japanese physicist who made an experimental pioneer work on optical spectroscopy for nuclear structure studies in 1920s. Today much attention should be paid to this work rather than to his famous atomic model that died away long time ago along with Thomson's model.

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  1. Heavy Ion Laboratory, Warsaw University, ul. Pasteura 5A, PL 02 093, Warszawa, Poland

    Takashi T. Inamura

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Inamura, T.T. Optical spectroscopy by Hantaro Nagaoka – Pioneer nuclear structure study. Hyperfine Interactions 127, 31–34 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012638005445

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