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IN a number of recent papers, Prof. A. H. Compton brings forward what purports to be a Quantum Theory of the scattering of X-rays. I venture to think that this theory—or more correctly system of rules—has little connexion with the phenomena of X-ray scattering as I observed it nearly twenty years ago, and as I still know it. I do not wish to write of the inconsistency or illogicality of the theoretical assumptions, for they are probably as well known to Prof. Compton as to the most careful reader. Prof. Compton seems to hope that, in spite of this, the truth will emerge. But I am compelled to state a few significant facts which are not common knowledge.
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BARKLA, C. The “J” Phenomena and X-ray Scattering. Nature 112, 723–724 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112723a0
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