On the falsity of a claimed exact analytic formula for the calculation of Voigt spectral line profile

We provide a proof of the falsity of a recently claimed ``exact analytic formula{''} for the calculation of the Voigt line profile {[}Jian He and Qingguo Zhang, An exact calculation of the Voigt spectral line profile in spectroscopy,J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 9 (2007) 565-568]. The subsequent findings and claims based on this erroneous representation of the Voigt line profile should not be considered any further. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.