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IN his letter to NATURE (May 31, p. 781), Prof. Runge criticised the result of measurements on the satellites of mercury and bismuth lines in connexion with the isotopes, which I and my co-workers have communicated to NATURE (March 29, p. 459), as not convincing. It gives me much pleasure that our note has attracted the attention of such an eminent spectroscopist and mathematician as Prof. Runge. The aim of that note was to show that the wavelength differences, according to our formula, which involves the masses of different isotopes, are found among the satellites of mercury and bismuth lines. Prof. Runge discarded i and j, and took wave-length differences of observed satellites at random, which is contrary to our view, as regards the selection. The example given by Prof. Runge seems to me to be lauter Zahlenspielerei.
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NAGAOKA, H. Isotopes of Mercury and Bismuth and the Satellites of their Spectral Lines. Nature 114, 245 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114245b0
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