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Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'A new form of Wehnelt interrupter' by F H Newman

Reference number: RR/26/104

Date: March 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests reducing the length of the paper. Refers to work of Goldhammer [?]. The results do not advance much on what was known 20 years previously. The theory is incomplete and only a slight advance on Simon's Theory.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1921]

Endorsed on verso as received 8 March 1921.

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RR/26/104
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March 1921
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Charles Herbert Lees, Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'A new form of Wehnelt interrupter' by F H Newman, March 1921, RR/26/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_104/referees-report-by-charles-herbert-lees-on-a-paper-a-new-form-of-wehnelt-interrupter-by-f-h-newman, accessed on 12 July 2025

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