And J.J. Balmer in 1885 playing with the numbers asociated with the lines there, you notice how the lines are colored?

885年，巴尔末,开始把光线与数字联系起来，你注意过光线是怎样被赋予颜色的吗？

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In 1896, Charles Pickering from Harvard found a series of lines in starlight which he attributed to hydrogen, even though they did not fit Balmer.

在1896年，来自哈佛的查尔斯皮克林发现,一系列的星光,他认为那是氢的作用，虽然它们与巴尔末理论不符。

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It turns out that we are far from the first people, although it felt exciting, we did not discover this for the first time here today. In fact, J.J. Balmer, JJ Balmer who was a school teacher in the 1800s, was the first to describe these lines that could be seen from hydrogen.

实际上，它第一次被发现已经是在很早之前了，虽然我们觉得很激动，但我们,并不是第一次发现这个的，事实上，一个19世纪的老师,是第一个在氢原子中发现这些谱线的人。

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