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MANY attempts have been made to explain the discrepancy between the scotopic luminosity curve and the absorption spectrum of visual purple. Recently, Dartnall and Goodeve1 have applied the Stark-Einstein law in order to express the luminosity curve in terms of quanta and have shown that the resulting correction was insufficient.
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LUDVIGH, E. Scotopic Luminosity Curve and the Absorption Spectrum of Visual Purple. Nature 141, 1141–1142 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1411141b0
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