Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal (12 September 1895 – 7 March 1959) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in solid state physics,"The historical development of quantum theory", by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg, p. 327, biographical note known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering of photons (the Raman effect).A. Smekal. 1943. Zur Quantentheorie der Dispersion. Die Naturwissenschaften 11(43): 873-875 .
Adolf Smekal studied at the Vienna College of Technology (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).
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