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Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The succession of changes in radio-active bodies' by Ernest Rutherford

Reference number: RR/16/226

Date: August 1904

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Sectional committee: [Physics and chemistry]

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1905].

Endorsed on verso as received 27 August 1904.

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RR/16/226
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August 1904
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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William Cecil Dampier Whetham

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William Cecil Dampier Whetham, Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The succession of changes in radio-active bodies' by Ernest Rutherford, August 1904, RR/16/226, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_226/referees-report-by-william-cecil-dampier-whetham-on-the-bakerian-lecture-the-succession-of-changes-in-radio-active-bodies-by-ernest-rutherford, accessed on 24 May 2025

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