Lyman Trumbull

(noun)

A U.S. Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War and coauthor of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Examples of Lyman Trumbull in the following topics:

  • Higher Education

    • Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois believed it was advisable that the bill should be introduced by an eastern congressman, and two months later Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont introduced his bill

  • Johnson's Plan

    • Illinois senator Lyman Trumbull, leader of the moderate Republicans, recognized that the abolition of slavery was worthless without the protection of basic civil rights, and thus proposed the first Civil Rights Law.

  • The Radical Record

    • Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, leader of the moderate Republicans, took the Black Codes as an affront.

  • Hydrogen Spectra

    • For the Lyman series, $n_f = 1$ for the Balmer series, $n_f = 2$; for the Paschen series, $n_f = 3$; and so on.
    • The Lyman series is entirely in the UV, while part of the Balmer series is visible with the remainder UV.

  • The Temperance Movement

    • Americans such as Lyman Beecher, a Connecticut minister, had started to lecture fellow citizens against all use of liquor in 1825.
    • Lyman Beecher was a charismatic and influential preacher during the first half of the nineteenth century who championed, among other moral reforms, the temperance movement.

  • Hamilton's Achievements

  • Selection Rules

    • For example, HI 1219A is Lyman-$\alpha$.

  • The Aftermath of Saratoga

  • Emission Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom

    • For example, the 2 → 1 line is called Lyman-alpha (Ly-α), while the 7 → 3 line is called Paschen-delta (Pa-δ).

  • Energy of a Bohr Orbit

    • Part of the Balmer series is in the visible spectrum, while the Lyman series is entirely in the UV, and the Paschen series and others are in the IR.