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THIS book gives a summary of work on the Raman effect up to the middle of this year. It is necessarily largely a catalogue of numerical data, but does also contain both a good general elementary account of the subject and the essential parts of its rather complicated mathematical basis. The arrangement of the material—and it is remarkable how much has been accumulated in three years—is excellent and the author's comments authoritative and critical, so that there can be little doubt that the book will come to be the standard reference for early investigations in this still young subject. At the moment the most valuable parts for the research worker will probably be a table of Raman spectra for 482 substances, classified according to their chemical composition, and a list of 417 original papers. Incidentally, is it not time either that the phenomenon came to be described simply as the Raman effect, or that some generally acceptable designation were devised expressing its physical content? .
Der Smekal-Raman-Effekt.
Prof. Dr.
K. W. F.
Kohlrausch
Von. (Struktur der Materie in Einzel-darstellungen, herausgegeben von M. Born und J. Franck, Band 12.) Pp. viii + 392. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931.) 33.80 gold marks.
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E, K. Der Smekal-Raman-Effekt . Nature 128, 1026 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/1281026c0
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