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Ronald W. Gurney

American physicist

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alpha decay

In quantum mechanics: Tunneling
…by George Gamow and by Ronald W. Gurney and Edward Condon in 1928, the alpha particle is confined before the decay by a potential of the shape shown in Figure 1. For a given nuclear species, it is possible to measure the energy E of the emitted alpha particle and…
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