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Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Studies in brownian movement. II -The determination of avogadro's number from observations on bacteria (cocci)' by John H Shaxby

Reference number: RR/29/51

Date: September 1923

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. He expects the author's observations to be 'reliable'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1923].

Endorsed on verso as received 1 October 1923.

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September 1923
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Owen Willans Richardson, Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Studies in brownian movement. II -The determination of avogadro's number from observations on bacteria (cocci)' by John H Shaxby, September 1923, RR/29/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_29_51/referees-report-by-owen-willans-richardson-on-a-paper-studies-in-brownian-movement-ii-the-determination-of-avogadros-number-from-observations-on-bacteria-cocci-by-john-h-shaxby, accessed on 07 December 2024

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