Angstrom, Anders Jonas. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Ångström, Anders Jonas

SYLLABICATION:	Ång·ström
PRONUNCIATION:	ngstrm, ôngstrœm
DATES:	1814–1874
	Swedish physicist and astronomer who founded the science of spectroscopy and discovered by studying the solar spectrum that there is hydrogen in the sun's atmosphere.


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