The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 1, 255-259,
Copyright © 1919 by The Rockefeller University Press
TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF THE ACTION OF ß-RAYS UPON THE EGG OF NEREIS
Alfred C. Redfield 1 and
Elizabeth M. Bright 1
1 From the Laboratory of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.
The temperature coefficient of the action of ß-rays from radium upon the egg of Nereis lies between 1.1 and 1.2. This is of a magnitude characteristic of photochemical reactions.
Submitted on November 4, 1918