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IT has been suggested by W. N. Bond1 that, in some or all of the attempts to determine e/m experimentally, the quantity actually found is 136/137 e/m ; for if the experimental results are corrected in accordance with this hypothesis, they are found to be in satisfactory accordance with my theoretical values of the fine-structure constant (137) and massratio (1847·6). R. T. Birge2 has confirmed this; and, quoting three important recent determinations of e/m, he has shown that the agreement is extremely close.
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W. N. Bond, NATURE, 133, 327, March 3, 1934.
R. T. Birge, NATURE, 133, 648, April 28, 1934.
A. S. Eddington, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 122, 358 ; 1929.
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EDDINGTON, A. The Factor 137/136 in Quantum Theory. Nature 133, 907 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133907a0
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