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RUPP, working with Szilard, has reported1 a peculiar form of asymmetry in the scattering of electrons. He finds that fast electrons when scattered through 90° and then passed through a thin gold foil show asymmetrical diffraction rings. The rings were strongest when the diffraction turned the electrons in the same way as the original scattering and weakest at 180° to this direction. The effect became marked at 150 k.v. and increased with the energy of the rays.
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Rupp, Phys. Z., 33, 158, 937; 1932.
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THOMSON, G. Polarisation of Electrons. Nature 132, 1006 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/1321006a0
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