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IT is well known that after an atom has been ionised, for example in its K shell, the ensuing reorganisation of the extra-nuclear electronic structure is not by any means invariably accompanied by the emission of K-radiation. Quite frequently we have instead a radiationless change of the type first completely specified by Rosseland, which results in the expulsion of a photo-electron of the second kind and in leaving the atom doubly ionised—until further reorganisation occurs—in its X-ray levels. These photo-electrons of the second kind were observed by M. de Broglie, but the manner in which they originate was first clearly established by Auger's beautiful work with the Wilson cloud chamber, and it is convenient and not inappropriate to refer to them as Auger electrons.
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ROBINSON, H. Auger Effect and Forbidden Transitions. Nature 135, 826 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135826a0
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