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Measured abrupt changes in electron current through mercury vapour associated with discrete energy transfer in electron-atom collisions.
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James Franck; Gustav Hertz
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Franck and Hertz: electron collisions in mercury vapour
Measured abrupt changes in electron current through mercury vapour associated with discrete energy transfer in electron-atom collisions.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1914 experimental paper. It does not retroactively assign every later quantum interpretation to the authors, absorb related papers in their series or generalize the apparatus to all atoms.
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People and systems
James Franck; Gustav Hertz
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.