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IN a letter to NATURE of March 2, Dr. R. T. Birge has pointed out the difficulty of reconciling the experimental value of 137·2 of hc/2πe2 with Prof. Eddington's theoretical value of 136. He concludes that it is highly improbable that any of the measurements of the three physical quantities involved could be so much in error. The only other possibility seems to be that the value of we calculate for practically zero field is not the value that should be inserted in obtaining the value of hc/2πe2.
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POOLE, J. The Electronic Charge e. Nature 123, 530 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123530c0
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