How Was Infrared Light Discovered

How Was Infrared Light Discovered?

Serendipity. In the year 1800, Sir William Herschel was exploring the question of how much heat was contained by the different colors of visible light. He devised and experiment where he used a glass prism to separate sunlight into it’s rainbow of colors. … Thus, he discovered infrared light.

Who first discovered infrared waves?

astronomer Sir William Herschel
Most encyclopedias and physics books credit the great British astronomer Sir William Herschel with the discovery of infrared radiation in 1800.

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