Diffuse Reflexion of X-Rays
Abstract
I WISH to add some remarks concerning the theory of the new effect described by G. D. Preston in his article published under the above title in NATURE of April 19, p. 467. A critical study of the suggestions brought forward by Sir C. V. Raman and Sir William Bragg showed that they cannot be accepted as possible explanations, and some photographs kindly sent to me by Mrs. Lonsdale convinced me that the effect ought to be a consequence of Debye's well-known theory of the influence of thermal vibrations on the scattering of X-rays. As the literature on this subject, although extended, is not satisfactory, I have (in collaboration with Miss K. Sarginson) reconsidered the problem assuming that the scattering power of each single atom is known, and only the influence of the atomic vibrations is to be determined.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- May 1941
- DOI:
- 10.1038/147674a0
- Bibcode:
- 1941Natur.147..674B