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Compton's 'Crucial Test' - Theoretical Preconceptions And Experimental Interpretation, Roger H. Stuewer
Compton's 'Crucial Test' - Theoretical Preconceptions And Experimental Interpretation, Roger H. Stuewer
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
Arthur Holly Compton, as a result of his own research and confidence in the validity of classical electrodynamics, was convinced in 1921 that homogeneous x-rays and gamma rays could be affected in only two possible ways when passing through matter: either they gave rise to "truly scattered" radiation of the same wavelength as that of the incident rays, or they excited "fluorescent" radiation of a longer wavelength. When Compton was led to carry out experiments using homogeneous x-rays and actually found secondary radiation of longer wavelength, he regarded his result as a crucial test between the "truly scattered" and the …
Atomic Numbers Revalued, Frank H. Meyer
Atomic Numbers Revalued, Frank H. Meyer
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
As a general physical theory, the Reciprocal System of D.B. Larson covers all physical fields, including atomic physics . Inasmuch as all of the conclusions reached in the theoretical development are derived entirely by deduction from the basic postulates of this system, the conclusions provide information that is completely independent of observation. The theoretical development indicates that the Mosely atomic number mathematical formula is quite right, and the Rutherford-Bohr-Mosely nuclear atom physical interpretation of atomic number is seriously wrong. The discrete units constituting atoms evidently are not neutrons and electrically charged particles. Nor are atoms made up of parts, a …