Sir CV Raman, Dame Kathleen Lonsdale and their Scientific Controversy due to the Diffuse Spots in X-Rays Photographs

Author(s): Singh, Rajinder
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Article: Indian Journal of History of Science, 37 (2002), pp. 267-290., Indian National Science Academy
Keywords: X-rays Spectroscopy; Diffuse spots in Laue Photographs; Lattice Dynamic; Dame Kathleen Lonsdale; Chandrasekhara Venkata, Max Born
PACS: 33.15.-e, 33.20.Fb, 33.20.Kf, 33.20.Sn, 33.20.Tp, 61.10.-i, 61.12.Bt, 95.30.-k, 01.75.+m
Abstract:: The Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and the British crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971) disputed concerning the priority of the discovery and the interpretation of diffuse spots on Laue photographs, and types of diamond. In this article, I first provide a short review of the theories given by different authors to explain the observed spots. I then with the help of Lonsdale's correspondence show, how the editor of Nature and the German physicist Max Born supported her.
ISSN: 0019-5235