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Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Experiments on the diffraction of cathode rays' by George Paget Thomson

Reference number: RR/36/87

Date: November 1927

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 15 November 1927.

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RR/36/87
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November 1927
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Experiments on the diffraction of cathode rays' by George Paget Thomson, November 1927, RR/36/87, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_36_87/referees-report-by-charles-thomson-rees-wilson-on-a-paper-experiments-on-the-diffraction-of-cathode-rays-by-george-paget-thomson, accessed on 15 June 2026

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