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NEW experiments to find whether there is a correlation between the scattering of gamma radiation and electron recoil are described by Dr. J. C. Jacobsen. In agreement with Bothe and Maier-Leibnitz, and unlike Shankland, the author finds a number of coincidences which is well beyond the experimental error. Commenting on these results, Prof. N. Bohr considers that the grounds for serious doubts concerning the validity of conservation of energy and momentum in atomic phenomena are largely removed. The root of the still unsolved difficulties of quantum electrodynamics may be looked for, he states, in the atomistic nature of electricity, which is as foreign to the classical physical theories as the quantum of action itself.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 138, 39 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138039a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138039a0