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Referee's report by Frederick Soddy, on a paper 'Experiments on the emission of electrons under the influence of chemical action' by Manfred Brotherton

Reference number: RR/28/69

Date: January 1924

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work by Owen Willans Richardson in Proceedings A, 1921. Suggests reducing the paper by putting the descriptions of measurements and experiments into an abstract.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1924]

Endorsed on verso as received 14 January 1923.

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RR/28/69
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January 1924
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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5 pages
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Frederick Soddy

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Frederick Soddy, Referee's report by Frederick Soddy, on a paper 'Experiments on the emission of electrons under the influence of chemical action' by Manfred Brotherton, January 1924, RR/28/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_69/referees-report-by-frederick-soddy-on-a-paper-experiments-on-the-emission-of-electrons-under-the-influence-of-chemical-action-by-manfred-brotherton, accessed on 14 April 2026

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