Where did Bothe join in 1913, working on radioactivity?
Berlin Physics Institute
Reich Physical and Technical Institute
Radiological Institute of Munich
Hamburg Laboratory for Physics
Answer
In 1913, Bothe joined the Reich Physical and Technical Institute in Berlin, working on radioactivity. He and his colleagues discovered that the absorption of alpha particles by matter caused the emission of X-rays, and that the number of X-rays emitted was proportional to the number of alpha particles absorbed. They also showed that the energy of the X-rays was related to the energy of the alpha particles.
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