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Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, 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/25/46

Date: 04 January 1918

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work by Philipp Lenard. The arguments used in the paper are mistaken. Suggests the paper is returned for revision.

[Not published]

Endorsed on recto as received 7 January 1919.

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RR/25/46
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04 January 1918
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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William Henry Bragg, Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, 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, 04 January 1918, RR/25/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_25_46/referees-report-by-william-henry-bragg-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 22 January 2025

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