Referee's report by Charles Glover Barkla, on a paper 'On the velocities of two distinct groups of secondary corpuscular rays produced by a homogeneous Rontgen radiation, and their absorption coefficients in various gases' by Lewis Simons
Reference number: RR/25/45
Date: November 1918

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry
Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is weak and misleading for those not familiar with the subject. There is little to support the conclusions. Suggests further experimental work be conducted.
[Not published]
Endorsed on recto as received 7 November 1918.
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- RR/25/45
- Earliest possible date
- November 1918
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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Charles Glover Barkla, Referee's report by Charles Glover Barkla, on a paper 'On the velocities of two distinct groups of secondary corpuscular rays produced by a homogeneous Rontgen radiation, and their absorption coefficients in various gases' by Lewis Simons, November 1918, RR/25/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_25_45/referees-report-by-charles-glover-barkla-on-a-paper-on-the-velocities-of-two-distinct-groups-of-secondary-corpuscular-rays-produced-by-a-homogeneous-rontgen-radiation-and-their-absorption-coefficients-in-various-gases-by-lewis-simons, accessed on 11 February 2025
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