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The Nature of γ Rsays

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EXPERIMENTS by Prof. Bragg and myself upon the secondary kathode radiation which proceeds from matter through which γ rays are allowed to pass, taken in conjunction with the similar result announced by Mr. Cooksey in NATURE of April 2 (vol. lxxvii., p. 509) for X-rays, support the theory of the material nature of X and of γ rays originally advanced by Prof. Bragg.

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MADSEN, J. The Nature of γ Rsays. Nature 79, 67–68 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079067e0

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