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Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The influence of gases on the emission of electrons and ions from hot metals' by Owen Willans Richardson

Reference number: RR/22/93

Date: 07 June 1915

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings, in it's current form. The validity of the theoretical part of the paper is 'very uncertain'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1915].

Endorsed on verso as received 10 June 1915.

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RR/22/93
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07 June 1915
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4 pages
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John Sealy Edward Townsend, Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The influence of gases on the emission of electrons and ions from hot metals' by Owen Willans Richardson, 07 June 1915, RR/22/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_22_93/referees-report-by-john-sealy-edward-townsend-on-a-paper-the-influence-of-gases-on-the-emission-of-electrons-and-ions-from-hot-metals-by-owen-willans-richardson, accessed on 19 January 2025

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