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THIS collection of articles by leading continental men of science possesses a great amount of interest for students of physical science, both pure and applied. Thus, we have an article on planetary radiation by Prof. Schoenberg, which is followed by a comprehensive treatment of the measurement of photographs by Dr. Seliger, and by an article on dynamic meteorology by Prof. Wegener. Prof. Bjerrum gives a very interesting account of the electric forces between ions and their effects, and Prof. Pringsheim gives an account of work on the photo-electric effect in gases, in which he describes the recent work of Foote, Mohler, and Auger. The article on atomic disintegration, by Dr. Kirsch, gives a survey of the experimental results obtained in Cambridge and Vienna, and the author attempts to interpret these results in terms of the explosion theory advanced by Pettersson. The experimental proof of the statistical nature of the law of radioactive decay is treated in a further section, by Prof. Kohlrausch, who pays particular attention to the work of Frl. Bormann, which provides, in his opinion, the first conclusive experimental proof of the correctness of the fundamental assumption on which the law is based. The absorption of gases under the influence of electrical discharge and allied phenomena are considered in full, in an article by Dr. Pietsch, to which are appended several pages of references. Finally, we have an excellent and up-to-date account of the Compton effect by Drs. Kallmann and Mark.
Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften.
Herausgegeben von der Schriftleitung der Naturwissenschaften. Fünfter Band. Pp. iii + 329. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926.) 21 gold marks.
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Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften . Nature 118, 729 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118729a0
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