Rango Krishna Asundi, Indian molecular spectroscopist (Dharwar District, Karnataka State 14 August 1895 – Bombay 02 February 1982)

Discovered an electronic band system in molecular spectrum of carbon monoxide (Johnson-Asundi-Herzberg bands)

A new band system of carbon monoxide (3¹S→2¹P), with remarks on the Angstrom band system.Proceed. Roy. Soc. A 123(792), 1929

A new band system of carbon monoxide. Nature 123:47-8, 1929

Discovered a second band system known as Asundi bands

New bands in the triplet carbon system. Proceed. Ind. Acad. Sciences Sect A 491(12), 1940

Discovered the diffuse emission bands of halogens

Showed that high pressure carbon bands had the same final level as the Swan system of C₂

With R.C. Johnson.The structure of the high pressure carbon bands and the Swan system. Proceed. Roy. Soc. A 123(792), 1929

Discovered several Fermi resonances in emission spectrum of benzene

With M.E. Padhye. Fermi resonance in benzene. Nature 163:638, 1949

Made discoveries and interpretations of new electronic band systems in CO, CO⁺, I₂, Br₂ & Cl₂

Identified the fluorescence spectrum of neutron irradiated monocesium uranyl nitrate as that of dicesium uranyl nitrate

With R.M. Dixit. Fluorescence spectrum of di-caesium uranyl nitrate. Nature 200:668, 1963

Papers in Nature

With P. Ramakoteswara Rao & J.K. Brody. Rotational analysis of ⁶⁵Cu ³⁵Cl bands. Nature 192:444-5, 1961

With B.D. Joshi. The near ultra-violet bands of para-dichlorobenzene. Nature 177:36, 1956

With R.S. Singh. Absorption spectrum of benzoquinone. Nature 176:1223-4, 1955

With N. Appalanarasimhan. Effect of irradiation on the intensity distribution of the second positive nitrogen bands excited in a nitrogen ozonizer. Nature 171:86-7, 1953

With P. Venkateswarlu. Emission bands of the fluctuation type in the spectrum of iodine. Nature 156:452, 1945

With M.R. Padhye. Near ultra-violet emission bands of benzene. Nature 156:368, 1945

With N.L.Singh. Selective excitation of spectra by the high-frequency discharge. Nature 150:123, 1942

With N.L. Singh & J.D. Singh. A reversible discharge tube. Nature 149:22, 1942

With B.K. Vaidya. Flame and arc spectra of some calcium and strontium salts. Nature 145:224, 1940

With R. Samuel. Dissociation of N₂⁺ Nature 139:375, 1937

With M. Jan-Khan & R. Samuel. Spectra of SeO and SeO₂. Nature 136:642-3, 1935

The emission bands of sulphur. Nature 127:93-4, 1931

With J.W. Ryde. Vibrational quantum analysis of red cyanogen bands. Nature 124:57, 1929

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