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IN a letter in NATURE (August 2, 1906) I gave an account of some experiments which I considered proved that the particle as initially expelled is not charged, and I also gave an account of the same work in a paper read before the British Association at York last August. Although I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of the experiments published in my letter, I do not now consider them sufficiently conclusive, as some recently published researches on the particle have to be taken into account in their interpretation. I refer chiefly to a paper published by Rutherford shortly after my letter (Phil. Mag., October, 1906, p. 348), in which the view is put forward that the particle carries two atomic charges.
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SODDY, F. The Positive Charge Carried by the Particle. Nature 75, 438 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075438b0
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