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Early work at the Cavendish Laboratory established the important features of the process in which high energy charged particles lose their energy in a gas. The work there by RUTHERFORD and GEIGER [1] in which collisions were used to “magnify” the number of electrons produced in a gas established the basis of the first single electron counters. One cannot avoid noting that if the laser had been available to RUTHERFORD, so that individual atoms could be selectively ionized, he most likely would have started the counting of individual atoms.
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Hurst, G.S., Nayfeh, M.H., Young, J.P., Payne, M.G., Grossman, L.W. (1977). Selective Single Atom Detection in a 1019 Atom Background. In: Hall, J.L., Carlsten, J.L. (eds) Laser Spectroscopy III. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35968-5_6
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