Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal (September 12, 1895, Vienna

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, Austria

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 — March 7, 1959, Graz

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, Austria) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in solid state physics, known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering

Inelastic scattering

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 of photon

Photon

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s (Smekal-Raman effect).

Adolf Smekal studied at the Technische Hochschule

Vienna University of Technology

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, Vienna (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz

University of Graz

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 (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).