Reply to Comment on ‘‘Rutherford’s experiment’ on alpha particles scattering: the experiment that never was’

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A brief reply to Prof. Campbell's comment follows below. We thank Prof. Campbell for having pointed out an inaccuracy in his comment to our work [1]. In our paper, there is indeed a minor inaccuracy about the real position of Hans Geiger in Manchester [2]. On page 4 of our paper, talking about Hans Geiger, it is written "young Rutherford's PhD student at the University of Manchester". This should be changed to "young Rutherford's assistant at the University of Manchester". As a matter of fact, Hans Geiger had already earned his PhD at the University of Erlangen under Eilhard Wiedemann on July 23, 1906, with a thesis by the title "Strahlungs-, Temperatur-und Potentialmessungen in Entladungsröhren bei Starken Strömen" (Radiation, temperature and potential measurements in discharge tubes with strong currents") (e.g. see "