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Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'On the ionisation of gases by collision and the ionising potential for positive ions and negative corpuscles' by W I Pawlow

Reference number: RR/21/131

Date: April 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the paper requires modification, as the results are 'carelessly interpreted'. Suggests omitting the literary introduction. Refers to work by Philipp Lenard and Wilhelm Wien.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 11 April 1914.

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RR/21/131
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April 1914
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John Sealy Edward Townsend, Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'On the ionisation of gases by collision and the ionising potential for positive ions and negative corpuscles' by W I Pawlow, April 1914, RR/21/131, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_131/referees-report-by-john-sealy-edward-townsend-on-a-paper-on-the-ionisation-of-gases-by-collision-and-the-ionising-potential-for-positive-ions-and-negative-corpuscles-by-w-i-pawlow, accessed on 12 December 2024

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