Intensity Measurements in the Raman Effect and the Distribution Law of Maxwell-Boltzmann

By a consideration analogous to that which Einstein used in his treatment of Planck's law it is shown that for the ratio of intensities between Stokes and anti-Stokes lines in the Raman effect the following formula holds: $\frac{I_S}{I_{\mathrm{AS}}}=\frac{\nu -{\nu }_i}{\nu +{\nu }_i}{e}^{\frac{h{\nu }_i}{\mathrm{kT}}}.$ Intensity measurements on carbon tetrachloride have been made and a good agreement with the theory is found. It is shown that it is possible to develop this method into a precision measurement of the constant $\frac{h}{k}$.