Abstract
IN this book, which is intended for Japanese readers, Prof. Mizuno, of Kyoto Imperial University, gives the substance of a course of lectures which he delivered in 1911 at the Kyoto summer school. Beginning with the vacuum tube discharge, the author leads his readers through the various phenomena associated with the Zeeman effect, Brownian movements, Lenard and Röntgen rays, up to the modern conceptions of the structure of the atom. In this connection the hypothetical forms of stable configurations are discussed at considerable length. There then follow fairly detailed sections on the constitution of the spectrum lines, on radio-activity, on the energy quantum theory, on the longitudinal and transverse mass of electrons, and the like. Towards the end the principle of relativity is introduced in connection with Michelson and Morley's classical experiments.
The Electron Theory.
By Prof. Toshinojo Mizuno. Pp. 336. (Tokyo: Z. P. Maruya and Co., Ltd., 1912.)
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The Electron Theory . Nature 91, 266–267 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091266a0
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