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English: Dependence of the anode current upon the voltage in the 1914 Franck-Hertz experiment. The tube temperature was about 115 C.[1]
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Redrawing of a figure from the original 1914 paper of Franck and Hertz. Measured data points in the original graph have been removed. See Auszüge aus der Originalarbeit von Franck und Hertz (1914). Archived from the original on 2009-11-30. Franck also used this figure in his Nobel Lecture, which is available in English translation at Franck, James (1965) "Transformation of Kinetic Energy of Free Electrons into Excitation Energy of Atoms by Impacts" in Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941, Elsevier
↑Franck, J.; Hertz, G. (1914). "Über Zusammenstöße zwischen Elektronen und Molekülen des Quecksilberdampfes und die Ionisierungsspannung desselben". Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft16: 457–467. A translation of this paper is given in Boorse, Henry A.; Motz, Lloyd (1966) "46. The Quantum Theory is Tested" in The World of the Atom, 1, Basic Books, pp. 766−778 OCLC: 534667.
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