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Scientist devoted to discovering the chemical composition of materials by looking at the light (and other kinds of electromagnetic radiation) they emit

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  • The dream of the spectroscopist is to be able to study a single atom or ion under constant conditions for
  • I found out there was a new guy in the department, a guy named David Klenerman, a laser spectroscopist.
  • I got out into the greenbelt square in front of the hotel on the heels of Mapes, the team's multisense spectroscopist.
  • Herzberg, is generally considered to be the world's foremost molecular spectroscopist and his large institute in Ottawa is the indisputed center for such research.
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