Biography
Rango Krishna Asundi, Indian molecular spectroscopist (Dharwar District, Karnataka State 14 August 1895 – Bombay 02 February 1982)
Discovered an electronic band system in molecular spectrum of carbon monoxide (Johnson-Asundi-Herzberg bands)
A new band system of carbon monoxide (31S→21P), with remarks on the Angstrom band system.Proceed. Roy. Soc. A 123(792), 1929
A new band system of carbon monoxide. Nature 123:47-8, 1929
Discovered a second band system known as Asundi bands
New bands in the triplet carbon system. Proceed. Ind. Acad. Sciences Sect A 491(12), 1940
Discovered the diffuse emission bands of halogens
Showed that high pressure carbon bands had the same final level as the Swan system of C2
With R.C. Johnson.The structure of the high pressure carbon bands and the Swan system. Proceed. Roy. Soc. A 123(792), 1929
Discovered several Fermi resonances in emission spectrum of benzene
With M.E. Padhye. Fermi resonance in benzene. Nature 163:638, 1949
Made discoveries and interpretations of new electronic band systems in CO, CO+, I2, Br2 & Cl2
Identified the fluorescence spectrum of neutron irradiated monocesium uranyl nitrate as that of dicesium uranyl nitrate
With R.M. Dixit. Fluorescence spectrum of di-caesium uranyl nitrate. Nature 200:668, 1963
Papers in Nature
With P. Ramakoteswara Rao & J.K. Brody. Rotational analysis of 65Cu 35Cl bands. Nature 192:444-5, 1961
With B.D. Joshi. The near ultra-violet bands of para-dichlorobenzene. Nature 177:36, 1956
With R.S. Singh. Absorption spectrum of benzoquinone. Nature 176:1223-4, 1955
With N. Appalanarasimhan. Effect of irradiation on the intensity distribution of the second positive nitrogen bands excited in a nitrogen ozonizer. Nature 171:86-7, 1953
With P. Venkateswarlu. Emission bands of the fluctuation type in the spectrum of iodine. Nature 156:452, 1945
With M.R. Padhye. Near ultra-violet emission bands of benzene. Nature 156:368, 1945
With N.L.Singh. Selective excitation of spectra by the high-frequency discharge. Nature 150:123, 1942
With N.L. Singh & J.D. Singh. A reversible discharge tube. Nature 149:22, 1942
With B.K. Vaidya. Flame and arc spectra of some calcium and strontium salts. Nature 145:224, 1940
With R. Samuel. Dissociation of N2+ Nature 139:375, 1937
With M. Jan-Khan & R. Samuel. Spectra of SeO and SeO2. Nature 136:642-3, 1935
The emission bands of sulphur. Nature 127:93-4, 1931
With J.W. Ryde. Vibrational quantum analysis of red cyanogen bands. Nature 124:57, 1929
