IN 1896 Prof. E. C. Pickering discovered a series of lines in the spectrum of the star ζ Puppis which has been attributed to hydrogen in consequence of numerical relationship to the Balmer series ...
PAWSEY, J. Observation of a Line in the Galactic Radio Spectrum: The Interstellar Hydrogen Line at 1,420 Mc./sec., and an Estimate of Galactic Rotation. Nature 168 ...