Abstract
In the fall of 1920 two young scholars happened to meet in London and found they had many interests in common in laboratory spectroscopy and astrophysics. One was an Indian and the other Japanese, and their paths crossed as they visited American and European centers to acquire the tools and techniques of the new physics and to hone their skills. Their chance meeting bears witness to the growing excitement over how the new physics made spectroscopy a central ingredient not only in the exploration of the atom, but of the structure and compositions of the sun and stars.
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De Vorkin, D. (2002). Toshio Takamine’s Contact with Western Astrophysics. In: Ansari, S.M.R. (eds) History of Oriental Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 275. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9862-0_12
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