Adolf Smekal

{{short description|Austrian theoretical physicist (1895-1959)}}

Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal (12 September 1895 – 7 March 1959) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in solid state physics,"The historical development of quantum theory", by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg, [https://books.google.com/books?id=W5kyppVPyesC&dq=%22Adolf+Gustav+Stephan+Smekal%22&pg=PA327 p. 327, biographical note] known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering of photons (the Raman effect).A. Smekal. 1943. Zur Quantentheorie der Dispersion. Die Naturwissenschaften 11(43): 873-875 {{doi|10.1007/BF01576902}}.

Adolf Smekal studied at the Vienna College of Technology (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).