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wrote encouraging letters to Ch'en that his son Eugene found after his father's death. According to his son, "When he came to
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The broadening of the resonance lines of rubidium under different homogenous pressures of its own vapor. The broadening, asymmetry and drift of rubidium resonance lines under homogenous pressures of helium and argon up to 100
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Garrett, Robert O.; Ch'en, Shang Yi (8 April 1966). "Pressure
Effects of Foreign Gases on the Absorption Lines of Cesium. II. The Effects of Helium on the First Two Members of the Principal Series".
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Ch'en, Shang Yi; Garrett, Robert O. (8 April 1966). "Pressure
Effects of Foreign Gases on the Absorption Lines of Cesium. I. The Effects of Argon on the First Two Members of the Principal Series".
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