Two hundred years from Newton splitting white light with a prism to a portable device that measures a material’s composition right in the field. This article is a placeholder: fill it in with a timeline of the milestones that led to today’s availability of the VIS-NIR method.
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- Newton and the splitting of white light (17th century).
- The discovery of Fraunhofer lines and the birth of quantitative spectroscopy.
- The first laboratory spectrophotometers (20th century).
- Detector miniaturization and the path to portable devices.
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