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THE work of MM. Fabry and Buisson on atmospheric ozone was the foundation of all later work on the subject. It had been suggested that the remarkably sudden 'cut off' of the solar spectrum at about 3000 A. was due to absorption in the earth's atmosphere. To test this hypothesis, they made careful measurements of the absorption by ozone of light of different wave-lengths in the laboratory and compared this with the extinction of sunlight passing through the atmosphere. From these measurements they were able to confirm the hypothesis, and also showed that the total amount of ozone in the atmosphere was equivalent to a layer of pure gas about 3 mm. thick.
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DOBSON, G. Prof. H. Buisson. Nature 153, 427–428 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153427c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153427c0