Wolfgang Wiese

Contact Information Atomic Physics Division 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8420 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8420 phone: 301-975-3201 fax: 301-975-1350

Curriculum Vitae

• National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1960-present
• Contractor(retired) 2004-present
• Chief, Atomic Physics Division 1978-2004
• Chief, Plasma Spectroscopy Section 1962-1978
• Physicist 1960-1962
• University of Maryland, Research Associate 1958-1960
• Ph.D., University of Kiel, Germany 1957
• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Fellow, Optical Society of America
• Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation
• Fellow, Washington Academy of Sciences
• Humboldt Senior Scientist Award 1986
• Honorary Ph.D., University of Kiel 1992
• Associate Editor: J. Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
• Editorial Board, Atomic and Plasma-Material Interaction Data for Fusion (IAEA Journal)

Research Interests

Plasma Spectroscopy; Atomic Structure Data; VUV Radiometry with hydrogen- and argon mini-arcs. Determination of atomic transition probabilities, and Stark widths and shifts, by emission measurements with stabilized arcs; regularities in atomic oscillator strengths; systematic trends in isoelectronic sequences; critical evaluation and compilation of atomic transition probability data and line shape parameters(Stark broadening)

Selected Recent Publications

N. Konjevic, A. Lesage, J.R. Fuhr and W.L. Wiese, "Experimental Stark Widths and Shifts for Spectral Lines of Neutral and Ionized Atoms," J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 31, 819 (2002).

J.Z. Klose, J.R. Fuhr, and W.L. Wiese, "Critically Evaluated Atomic Transition Probabilities for Ba I and Ba II," J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 31, 217 (2002).

W.L. Wiese, "Atomic Spectroscopy," in A Physicist's Desk Reference, 3rd Ed. (revised, Springer Verlag, New York, 2001).

J. Musielok, J.R. Fuhr, and W.L. Wiese, "Transition Probability Ratios for Selected Multiplets of C I, N I, and O I, and Comparisons with Recent Calculations," Phys. Rev. A 61, 044502-1 (2000).

T. Shirai, J. Sugar and W.L. Wiese, "Spectral Data for Highly Ionized Atoms: Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Kr and Mo," J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, Monograph 8, (2000).

C.R. Cowley, W.L. Wiese, J.R. Fuhr, and L.A. Kuznetsova, "Spectra," Chapter 4 in Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, New Edition, A.N. Cox, Ed. (AIP Press, New York, 2000).

J. Musielok, W.L. Wiese, S. Glenzer and H.-J. Kunze, "A Spectroscopic Coupling Study for Some Carbon-like Species," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Trans. 61(2), 215 (1999).

W.L. Wiese, "International Conference Series on Atomic and Molecular Data Established," Spectrochimica Acta B 54, 249 (1999).

J. Musielok, E. Pawelec, U. Griesmann and W.L. Wiese, "Atomic Transition Probabilities of F I Spectral Lines from 3s-3p and 3p-3d Transition Arrays," Phys. Rev. A 60, 947 (1999).

W.L. Wiese and D.E. Morton, Eds., Proc. 6th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths, Phys. Scr. T83, 176 pp. (1999).

J.M. Bridges and W.L. Wiese, "Transition Probabilities for the 3s ³S^o - 4p ³P and 3s ⁵So - 4p ⁵P Multiplets of O I," Phys. Rev. A 57, 4960 (1998).

U. Griesmann, J. Musielok, and W. L. Wiese, "Branching fractions and transition probabilities for transitions from 2p⁴3p, 2p⁴3d, and 2p⁴4s levels of Ne II," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 2204 (1997).

J. Musielok, G. Veres, and W.L. Wiese, "Some Experimental Tests of the Spectroscopic Coupling Scheme of C I," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 57, 395 (1997).

J.R. Fuhr and W.L. Wiese, "NIST Atomic Transition Probability Tables" (revised and enlarged edition), Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 77th Edition (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1996).

W.C. Martin and W.L. Wiese "Atomic Spectroscopy," in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Handbook, G.W.F. Drake, Ed. (AIP Press, Woodbury, New York, 1996), Chap. 10, 135-153.

J.Z. Klose, J.R. Fuhr, and W.L. Wiese, "Atomic Branching Ratio Data for Nitrogen-Like Species," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 55, 413 (1996).

J. Musielok, J.M. Bridges, S. Djurovi, and W.L. Wiese, "Oscillator Strengths for N II Lines, including Intersystem Lines, and Tests of the Spectroscopic Coupling Scheme," Phys. Rev. A 53, 3122 (1996).

W.L. Wiese, "The Critical Assessment of Atomic Oscillator Strengths," Phys. Scripta, T65, 188 (1996).

G. Veres and W.L. Wiese, "Experimental Atomic Transition Probabilities for O II Lines," Phys. Rev. A 54, 1999 (1996).

W.L. Wiese, J.R. Fuhr, and T.M. Deters, "Atomic Transition Probabilities for Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen," J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, Monograph No. 7 (1996).

S. Adelman and W.L. Wiese, Eds., "Astrophysical Applications of Powerful New Atomic Databases," Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf. Ser. 78 (1995).

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Online: August 2005