Bothe's Nobel-awarded work mainly concerns what aspect of radiation?
Its source
Its properties
Its wave-particle duality
Its effects on matter
Answer
The work that won BoThe Nobel Prize in Physics was his experimental verification of the wave-particle duality of radiation. In 1924, Bothe and Hans Geiger showed that the scattering of gamma rays by electrons is consistent with the hypothesis that gamma rays have both wave-like and particle-like properties.
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