= Alexander Reid
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= A. Reid
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An experimental <physicist> who studied <electron diffraction> by sending cathode rays through thin celluloid films. His contemporary scientific obituary identifies this research and the definitive paper that followed the preliminary report. A transmitted <electron> beam developing an angular diffraction pattern tests the <matter wave> description of <electrons>, connecting a particle beam produced in a vacuum apparatus with phenomena familiar from <wave> optics.<Obituary of Alexander Reid in Nature>[Scientific-work paragraph: diffraction of cathode rays through thin celluloid films and the preliminary and definitive reports]{ref}
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