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Second referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The effect of electric fields on the emission of electrons from conductors' by A T Waterman

Reference number: RR/37/143

Date: 1928

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. He does not think it is a very good paper but should be published 'eventually'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 1928.

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RR/37/143
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1928
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2 pages
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Ralph Howard Fowler

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Ralph Howard Fowler, Second referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The effect of electric fields on the emission of electrons from conductors' by A T Waterman, 1928, RR/37/143, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_37_143/second-referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-a-paper-the-effect-of-electric-fields-on-the-emission-of-electrons-from-conductors-by-a-t-waterman, accessed on 04 December 2025

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