The Thomas-Fermi Statistical Atom

General References on Line Spectra Introductory treatments  

Pauling and S. Goudsmit The Structure of Line Spectra, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1930. 

Wasastjerna, Soc. Scient. Fennica Comm. Phys.-Math., vol. 6, Numbers 18-22 (1932). 

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Eq. (2.16) is not an entirely new result. After this work had been concluded and we were looking around in search of bibliographical material, we came upon a paper by Englert and Schwinger [24] dealing with the introduction of quantum corrections to the Thomas-Fermi statistical atom. These authors attain the same result expressed by eq. (2.16) (for... 

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