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Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The succession of changes in radio-active bodies' by Ernest Rutherford

Reference number: RR/16/225

Date: 25 August 1904

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Sectional committee: [Physics and chemistry]

He is now free of the British Association and hopes to go to Switzerland on Saturday night. Reports favourably on the author's paper for the Philosophical Transactions and has left it with William Cecil Dampier Whetham who will return it to Larmor tomorrow. If Whetham's report is also favourable the paper should go to press immediately as others are working at the same problem. If it goes to press he would like a proof copy.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1905].

Endorsed on verso as received 26 August 1904.

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RR/16/225
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25 August 1904
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Larmor, Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The succession of changes in radio-active bodies' by Ernest Rutherford, 25 August 1904, RR/16/225, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_225/referees-report-by-joseph-larmor-on-the-bakerian-lecture-the-succession-of-changes-in-radio-active-bodies-by-ernest-rutherford, accessed on 14 December 2024

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