Note 19 — § 3. The Effect of a Magnetic Field.

Ann. de Chim. et de Phys. v. p. 70 (1905). In this connexion it may be remarked that on the present theory the rotation will give rise to diamagnetism only, since the kinetic energy of the electrons in the stationary states cannot be transferred into heat motion such as is supposed by Langevin in his theory of magnetism. This conclusion seems consistent with experiments which show that the monatomic gases helium and argon are diamagnetic (see P. Tanzler, Ann. d. Phys. xxiv. p. 931 (1907)), although the structure of these atoms, proposed in my former paper, was of a type which on Langevin’s theory should show paramagnetism.