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It is shown that, to a high degree of accuracy, the scattering of fast electrons by atomic nuclei is independent of the model chosen for the charge structure of the nucleus, even if the energy of the electrons is sufficiently high for several of the partial scattered waves to be modified by the finite extent of the nucleus.
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Lewis Elton (1953) studied this question.
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