James Franck

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1926

Transformation of Kinetic Energy of Free Electrons into Excitation Energy of Atoms by Impacts

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1965

 

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