Some contemporary advances in physics — II

Note: Dr. Darrow, the author of the following article, has made it a practice to prepare abstracts and reviews of such recent researches in physics as appear to him to be of special interest. The results of Dr. Darrow's work have been available to the staffs of the Bell System laboratories for some time and having been very well regarded, it is thought that such a review, published from time to time in the Technical Journal, might be welcomed by its readers. The review cannot, of course, cover all the published results of physical research. The author chooses those articles which appear significant to him or instructive to his readers, without attempting to pass judgment on the scientific importance of the different papers published. It is not intended that the review shall always assume the same form; at one time it may cover many articles, at another be devoted to only a few, and it may occasionally treat of but a single piece of work. The present installment, which is Number II, is devoted very largely to the subject of atomic structure. — Editor.