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Unpublished paper, 'The rest masses of the neutron and neutrino' by H O W Richardson

Reference number: AP/81/13

Date: 1939

Description

Printed proof of a paper in which Richardson attempts to 'deduce the rest masses of the neutron and neutrino [...] by consideration of the process of beta-ray disintegration.'

Note reads 'Paper by H O W Richardson set up in page proof, but held up from printing at last moment by the author, and ordered to be placed in the archives of the Society by the Secretaries on 9.XI.39'. Includes a letter dated 7 November 1939.

Subject: Physics

Received 16 March 1939. Communicated by Arthur Eddington.

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AP/81/13
Earliest possible date
1939
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Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
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Printed
Typescript
Manuscript

Creator name

H O W Richardson

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H O W Richardson, Unpublished paper, 'The rest masses of the neutron and neutrino' by H O W Richardson, 1939, AP/81/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_81_13/unpublished-paper-the-rest-masses-of-the-neutron-and-neutrino-by-h-o-w-richardson, accessed on 09 December 2025

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