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unusual facts about canal rays



Ives–Stilwell experiment

Ives remarked that it is nearly impossible to measure the transverse Doppler effect with respect to light rays emitted by canal rays at right angles to the direction of motion of the canal rays (as it was considered earlier by Einstein), because the influence of the longitudinal effect can hardly be excluded.

Johannes Stark

In 1919, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields" (the latter is known as the Stark effect).

Paul Ulrich Villard

One of those was deflected by a magnetic field (as were the familiar "canal rays") and could be identified with Rutherford's beta rays.


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