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Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'The capacity for heat of metals at low temperatures' by Ernest Howard Griffiths

Reference number: RR/20/56

Date: April 1913

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. It is a 'most important' paper, which will become a 'classic of the subject'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1914].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 April 1913.

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RR/20/56
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April 1913
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2 pages
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John Allen Harker, Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'The capacity for heat of metals at low temperatures' by Ernest Howard Griffiths, April 1913, RR/20/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_20_56/referees-report-by-john-allen-harker-on-a-paper-the-capacity-for-heat-of-metals-at-low-temperatures-by-ernest-howard-griffiths, accessed on 09 December 2025

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