Lewi Tonks

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Lewi Tonks

American scientist

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plasma
The development of plasma physics
In 1929 he and Lewi Tonks, another physicist working in the United States, used the term to designate those regions of a discharge in which certain periodic variations of the negatively charged electrons could occur. They called these oscillations plasma oscillations, their behaviour suggesting that of a jellylike substance.…
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In 1929 he and Lewi Tonks, another physicist working in the United States, used the term to designate those regions of a discharge in which certain periodic variations of the negatively charged electrons could occur. They called these oscillations plasma oscillations, their behaviour suggesting that of a jellylike substance.…
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