Following the second world war, Wilson was a pioneer in the application of microwave spectroscopy to the determination of molecular structure.
The inversion of ammonia was first detected by microwave spectroscopy in 1934.
Gordy's work with microwave technology during this time led him to focus his subsequent spectroscopic research efforts on microwave spectroscopy.
Using microwave spectroscopy, small CS clusters have been detected in interstellar medium.
Thus, he did his PhD studies, on microwave spectroscopy, at night, while already a faculty member.
The number of experiments in microwave spectroscopy surged immediately after the war.
An animation illustrates the operation of this instrument which is currently the most widely used tool for microwave spectroscopy.
At one end there is a spectroscopic method (not so well known, but very accurate) called microwave spectroscopy.
Townes had begun a series of pioneering studies in microwave spectroscopy, but had no budget for a laboratory assistant.
"Gas-phase conformational distributions for the 2-alkylalcohols 2-pentanol and 2-hexanol from microwave spectroscopy".