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As is well known, the experiments of Bothe and Geiger1 and of Compton and Simon2 on the correlation between scattering of individual X-ray quanta and electron recoil gave results in complete agreement with the theoretical explanation of the Compton effect, based on the conservation of energy and momentum in each scattering process. The entirely negative results of the recent attempt by Shankland3 to find such a correlation in the scattering of -rays from radium was therefore most unexpected, and it seems desirable to repeat the experiments under conditions as well defined as possible and especially using the much more homogeneous -rays from thorium4.
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Since the experiments recorded above were finished, an account of similar experiments leading to the same results has been published by Bothe and Maier-Leibnitz (Göttingen Nachr., 10, 127; 1936).
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JACOBSEN, J. Correlation between Scattering and Recoil in the Compton Effect. Nature 138, 25 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138025a0
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