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Conservation Laws in Quantum Theory

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IN connexion with the new experiments on the correlation between scattering and recoil in the Compton effect by Bothe and Maier-Leibnitz, as well as those by Dr. Jacobsen recorded above, both contradicting the conclusions regarding the absence of such a correlation arrived at by Shankland, I should like to make the following brief comments upon the renewed discussion1 on a possible failure of the laws of conservation of energy and momentum in atomic phenomena, to which Shankland's experiments have given rise.

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BOHR, N. Conservation Laws in Quantum Theory. Nature 138, 25–26 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138025b0

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