Radio-activity and Gravitation

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 25 Dec 1919 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 104, pages 412-412 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Rutherford, E.; Compton, A. H.;

doi: 10.1038/104412c0

Radio-activity and Gravitation

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IN connection with the interesting letter of Prof. Donnan in NATURE of December 18, it may be of interest to mention some experimental results which have a bearing on this question. Some years ago Dr. Schuster suggested to one of us that it would be of interest to test whether the rate of transformation of radio-active substances was influenced by the intensity of gravitation. An accurate method of testing the rate of decay of radium emanation over a period of about a hundred days was developed, and it was intended to compare the rate of decay of samples which had been transported to suitable portions of the earth's surface. The outbreak of the war interfered with this plan.

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