Adolf Smekal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolf Smekal

Austrian physicist

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1895

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1959

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal (12 September 1895 – 7 March 1959) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in solid state physics, known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering of photons (the Smekal–Raman effect).Adolf Smekal studied at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).