Her father was an internationally recognized spectroscopist as well as an archaeology enthusiast. Batalha began her career as a stellar spectroscopist, studying sun-like stars. Malcolm Harris Levitt is a British-born physical chemist and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist. It is named for American spectroscopist Michael Kasha, who proposed it in 1950. Sanduleak was a spectroscopist who worked on a number of very large objective prism surveys. A spectroscopist mistakenly switched the names of the two elements during spectroscopy.