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Spherical Electronic Waves?

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The electronic A-waves which were predicted in a recent communication1 were plane waves, and it is very difficult to picture them. It seems, moreover, that these would be indefinitely extended.

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  1. Nature, 156, 204 (1945).

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  2. A. G. D. Watson, of A.S.E., in a letter to me dated Sept. 22, 1945, gave an alternative proof of (6).

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BENHAM, W. Spherical Electronic Waves?. Nature 160, 160 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160160a0

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