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Ralph Fowler (Lord Rutherford’s son-in-law) and Lothar Nordheim. Figure 6: Excerpts from Fowler and Nordheim, Proc. Royal Society, Series A, 119, p.173 (1928) showing electron emission from metals in intense electric fields as an example of Quantum Mechanical tunneling. Schrödinger’s equation is