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Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'On the origin of the electron emission from glowing solids' by Frank Horton

Reference number: RR/21/91

Date: June 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is too long for the Proceedings, but is very suitable for the Transactions.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 19 June 1914.

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RR/21/91
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June 1914
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2 pages
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John Sealy Edward Townsend, Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'On the origin of the electron emission from glowing solids' by Frank Horton, June 1914, RR/21/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_91/referees-report-by-john-sealy-edward-townsend-on-a-paper-on-the-origin-of-the-electron-emission-from-glowing-solids-by-frank-horton, accessed on 20 June 2025

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