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== External links == {{wikiquote}} * {{cite book |last1=Adler |first1=Stephen L. |author-link1=Stephen L. Adler |year=1973 |chapter=Theories of the fine structure constant {{mvar|α}} |title=Atomic Physics |volume=3 |pages=73–84 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4684-2961-9_4 |isbn=978-1-4684-2963-3 |chapter-url=http://lss.fnal.gov/archive/1972/pub/Pub-72-059-T.pdf }} * {{cite web |title=The fine structure constant |series=Introduction to the constants for nonexperts |publisher=National Institute of Standards and Technology |url=http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/alpha.html }} (adapted from the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', 15th ed. by [[NIST]]) * {{cite web |url=http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/codata.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216063410/http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/codata.pdf |archive-date=2008-02-16 |url-status=live |title=CODATA recommended value of {{mvar|α}} |year=2010 }} <!-- New CODATA 2018 is available, so maybe helpful to state here? --> * [https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-measure-the-magic-fine-structure-constant-20201202/ Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe] (Natalie Wolchover, ''Quanta magazine,'' December 2, 2020). The value of this constant is given here as 1/137.035999206 (note the difference in the last three digits). It was determined by a team of four physicists led by Saïda Guellati-Khélifa at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris. * {{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/fine-structure-constant |title=Quotes about the fine structure constant |website=Good Reads }} * {{cite web |title=Fine structure constant |website=Eric Weisstein's World of Physics |url=http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/FineStructureConstant.html |via=scienceworld.wolfram.com }} * {{cite magazine |author1=Barrow, J.D. |author1-link=John D. Barrow |author2=Webb, John K. <!-- |author2-link=John K. Webb --> |date=June 2005 |title=Inconstant constants |magazine=[[Scientific American]] |url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005BFE6-2965-128A-A96583414B7F0000&ref=sciam }} * {{cite web |last=Eaves |first=Laurence |author-link=Laurence Eaves |year=2009 |title=The fine structure constant |website=Sixty Symbols |publisher=[[Brady Haran]] for the [[University of Nottingham]] |url=http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/finestructure.htm }} [[Category:Dimensionless constants]] [[Category:Electromagnetism]] [[Category:Fundamental constants]] [[Category:Arnold Sommerfeld]]
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