Fricke, Hugo

At the time, it was known that water could be decomposed by heat or by UV irradiation. However, irradiation by X-rays seemed to show no decomposition of very pure water. This led Hugo Fricke to conclude that radiation created two forms of excited water, which could react with additives in the system or decay back to normal water. Today we certainly know that radiation does decompose water. 

By William Duane, Hugo Fricke and Wilhelm Stenstrom Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University Communicated August 19, 1920. 

This paper is dedicated to Dr. Hugo Fricke on the occasion of his seventy-sixth birthday. 

Hugo Fricke showed that, for example, the electrode polarization capacitance often varies as (in this book written as f ), and that there is a basic empirical relationship between the exponent m and the phase angle of the electrode polarization impedance (Fricke s law)

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