A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-rays

by Light Elements in The Physical Review Second Series, Vol. 25, No. 5, May 1923 by Arthur Holly Compton

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First edition

Published for the American Physical Society, 1923. First edition of Arthur Compton's Nobel Prize-winning paper on the Compton Effect. Pp. 483 -584. Complete issue, bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, small bumped to edge of upper boards, else Fine. Contains a paper by Arthur Holly Compton, A Quantum Theory of Scattering X-rays by Light Elements on pp. 483 -502. Compton

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