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IN his Thomas Hawksley Lecture of 1932, Lord Rutherford recounted the experiments with ‘atomic projectiles which had given so much insight into the structure of atomic nuclei. My principal aim now will be to indicate how the spectroscope has contributed to our knowledge of the systems of electrons surrounding the nuclei of atoms, on which chemical and other properties are dependent.
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Fowler, A. The Spectroscope and the Atom. Nature 139, 95–98 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139095a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139095a0