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THE experimental conclusions which I briefly outlined in a letter to NATURE of February 18 point directly to a theory of X-ray fluorescence and of the emission of radiation in quanta, which certainly bears a resemblance to Bohr's theory of line spectra. The experimental evidence obtained is, however, so direct that there seems little possibility of escape from the conclusions given below. Indeed, the theory was forced upon the writer directly by the experimental results, and it was only afterwards that he was reminded of some similarity with the theory of Bohr based on the Rutherford atom.
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BARKLA, C. X-Ray Fluorescence and the Quantum Theory. Nature 95, 7 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095007a0
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