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One important limitation of the study is that the scanners used aren’t powerful enough to distinguish between glutamate and another closely related molecule, glutamine, notes Alexander Lin, a clinical spectroscopist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 11, 2022

These wavy structures could mimic a phosphine signature, says Bruno Bézard, a spectroscopist at the Paris Observatory.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2020

Besides writing his columns, Dr. Jones made television appearances in Britain and Germany, worked as a spectroscopist for Imperial Chemical Industries and became a research fellow and professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2017

Department of Energy came in 1979, where he worked as a spectroscopist specializing in combustion and coal in Grand Forks.

From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2014

Some years since, Dr. Huggins, the eminent spectroscopist, found that the bright star Sirius, "the monarch of the skies," was receding from the earth at the rate of about 20 miles a second.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various