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Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the influence of low temperatures on the magnetic properties of alloys of iron with nickel and manganese' by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Robert Abbott Hadfield and H R Woltjer

Reference number: RR/26/106

Date: 22 March 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to previous paper by Robert Abbott Hadfield and Bertram Hopkinson. Suggests the authors tidy up their use of the term 'specific magnetism'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 23 March 1921.

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RR/26/106
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22 March 1921
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James Alfred Ewing, Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the influence of low temperatures on the magnetic properties of alloys of iron with nickel and manganese' by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Robert Abbott Hadfield and H R Woltjer, 22 March 1921, RR/26/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_106/referees-report-by-james-alfred-ewing-on-a-paper-on-the-influence-of-low-temperatures-on-the-magnetic-properties-of-alloys-of-iron-with-nickel-and-manganese-by-heike-kamerlingh-onnes-robert-abbott-hadfield-and-h-r-woltjer, accessed on 13 November 2025

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