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on the quantum theory of magnetism and the conduction phenomena in metals. During the same period was the holder of a
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electrons in metals, and its success greatly helped to establish modern electron band theory. The Fowler-Nordheim paper also established the physical basis for a unified treatment of field-induced and
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physics. In the early 1950s, however, he also made early contributions to the
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and from 1945 to 1947 head of the physics department there.
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