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unusual facts about fine structure



Leonid Mandelstam

In 1918, Mandelstam theoretically predicted the fine structure splitting in Rayleigh scattering due to light scattering on thermal acoustic waves.


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Dekeleia railway station

The station passenger building is a particularly fine structure, exceeding the normal passenger needs of the area, since it was formerly used to service the nearby Tatoi Palace, the summer residence of the Greek Royal Family.

Jack Silver

With the introduction of the so-called Silver machines he was able to give a fine structure free proof of Jensen's covering lemma.

University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston

"Biology including, but not restricted to, areas of emphasis in radiobiology, biomathematics, genetics, cytology, fine structure-electron microscope-analysis, molecular biology, with biochemistry and biophysics, microbiology and virology.

Variable speed of light

Paul Davies and collaborators have suggested that it is in principle possible to disentangle which of the dimensionful constants (the elementary charge, Planck's constant, and the speed of light) of which the fine-structure constant is composed is responsible for the variation.