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Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on a paper 'On the variation of the resistance of Selenium with the voltage' by E E Fournier d'Albe

Reference number: RR/19/33

Date: January 1912

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', but agrees with George Minchin Minchin [RR/19/32] that the paper should be modified. Suggests communicating to the author the inherent low-purity if Selenium. Refers to work by Shelford Bidwell.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1912]

Endorsed on verso as received 30 January 1912.

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RR/19/33
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January 1912
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Herbert Brereton Baker, Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on a paper 'On the variation of the resistance of Selenium with the voltage' by E E Fournier d'Albe, January 1912, RR/19/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_33/referees-report-by-herbert-brereton-baker-on-a-paper-on-the-variation-of-the-resistance-of-selenium-with-the-voltage-by-e-e-fournier-dalbe, accessed on 22 January 2025

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