page_title: Walter Grotrian
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Grotrian
caption_attribution_description: Berliner Physiker und Chemiker 1920 hintere Reihe, vlnr: Walter Grotrian Wilhelm Westphal Otto von Baeyer Peter Pringsheim Gustav Hertz vordere Reihe, vlnr: Hertha Sponer Albert Einstein Ingrid Franck James Franck Lise Meitner Fritz Haber Otto Hahn
context_page_description: Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian was a German astronomer and astrophysicist.
  Grotrian studied the emission line from the solar corona in the green region of the spectrum; this emission line could not be attributed to any known chemical element and was thought to be a new element. Grotrian and Bengt Edlén from Sweden demonstrated that the two observed emission lines arise from iron atoms that have lost about half their 26 electrons.
context_section_description: Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian (21 April 1890 in Aachen; † 3 March 1954 in Potsdam) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist.
  Grotrian studied the emission line from the solar corona in the green region of the spectrum; this emission line could not be attributed to any known chemical element and was thought to be a new element (which scientists named "coronium").  Grotrian and Bengt Edlén from Sweden demonstrated that the two observed emission lines arise from iron atoms that have lost about half their 26 electrons.
caption: German physicists and chemists in 1920. Standing, left to right: Walter Grotrian, Wilhelm Westphal, Otto von Baeyer [de], Peter Pringsheim [de], Gustav Hertz. Sitting, left to right: Hertha Sponer, Albert Einstein, Ingrid and James Franck, Lise Meitner, Fritz Haber, Otto Hahn.
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