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JUST a year ago Prof. Nichols gave here an account of J the beautiful experiment carried out by himself and Prof. Hull which, with the similar experiment of Lebedew, proved conclusively that a beam of light presses against any surface upon which it falls. Not only did Nichols and Hull detect the pressure, which is difficult enough, so minute is it, but they measured it with extraordinary accuracy, and confirmed fully Maxwell's calculation that the pressure on 1 sq. cm. is equal to the energy in 1 cubic centimetre of the beam.
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Some Astronomical Consequences of the Pressure of Light 1 . Nature 75, 90–93 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075090a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/075090a0