IN the course of the presentation of a paper on the spectrum of neon at the spring meeting of the American Physical Society a year ago, I mentioned that I had been able to obtain the first three members of the hydrogen series in the extreme ultra-violet reversed. Recently I have repeated the experiment with the purpose of improving the technique and confirming the results.
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Theodore Lyman (1926) studied this question.