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DR. F. A. LINDEMANN (NATURE, January 1) disagrees with the theoretical interpretation of my recent work on X-ray spectra (Phil. Mag., December, 1913). He objects to my statement that the results so far obtained strongly support the views of Bohr, and considers that they yield no information about the structure of the atom beyond confirming the views of Rutherford and van den Broek. My work was undertaken for the express purpose of testing Broek's hypothesis, which Bohr has incorporated as a fundamental part of his theory of atomic structure, and the result of the test certainly confirms the hypothesis. In my opinion, however, further definite conclusions can be drawn from the results, and these conclusions strongly support other features of Bohr's theory. Moreover, I cannot accept the alternatives which Dr. Lindemann offers to my formula representing the values of the principal frequencies observed.
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MOSELEY, H. Atomic Models and X-Ray Spectra . Nature 92, 554 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092554a0
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