"Electronic Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules." In Reviews of Modern Physics.

Hertha Sponer and Edward Teller, "Electronic Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules." In Reviews of Modern Physics, vol 13 number 2, April 1941, American Physical Society, pp 76-177 (the paper making the entire contents of the issue. Original wrappers. VG copy. Electronic This paper focuses on the interactions between light and polyatomic molecules, detailing how these molecules absorb and emit electromagnetic radiation a significant paper in the areas of spectroscopy, photochemistry, and materials science. [++] Hertha Sponer (1895 - 1968) was a German physicist and chemist was the first woman on the physics faculty at Duke, and who worked in quantum mechanics and molecular physics. She was also on the facuty at Gottingen (1925-1932) and assistant to Nobelist James Franck. SHe received her doctorate at Gottingen under Peter Debye (Nobel chemistry 1936)--one of the few women in Germany to take a physics doctorate.