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Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the extraction of electrons from cold conductors in intense electric fields' by Owen Willans Richardson

Reference number: RR/36/58

Date: January 1928

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The idea as it stands is crude, but might well be refined with more work. However, the paper 'should be published at once'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1928]

Endorsed on verso as received 5 January 1928.

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RR/36/58
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January 1928
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Ralph Howard Fowler, Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the extraction of electrons from cold conductors in intense electric fields' by Owen Willans Richardson, January 1928, RR/36/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_36_58/referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-a-paper-on-the-extraction-of-electrons-from-cold-conductors-in-intense-electric-fields-by-owen-willans-richardson, accessed on 08 November 2025

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