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Series Spectra of Two-valence-Electron Systems and of Three-valence-Electron Systems

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WE have recently been able to prove that the following laws first discovered in the X-ray field, namely (1) the Moseley law, (2) the regular-doublet, or Sommerfeld, law, and (3) the irregular-doublet, or Hertz, law, hold also throughout the whole field of optics, provided only the radiating atoms under comparison have the same electronic structure but varying nuclear charge.

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  1. Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

    I. S. BOWEN & R. A. MILLIKAN

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BOWEN, I., MILLIKAN, R. Series Spectra of Two-valence-Electron Systems and of Three-valence-Electron Systems. Nature 115, 422–423 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115422a0

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