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Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The emission of secondary electrons and the excitation of soft X-rays' by Owen Willans Richardson

Reference number: RR/38/121

Date: May 1928

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 24 May 1928.

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RR/38/121
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May 1928
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James Chadwick, Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The emission of secondary electrons and the excitation of soft X-rays' by Owen Willans Richardson, May 1928, RR/38/121, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_121/referees-report-by-james-chadwick-on-a-paper-the-emission-of-secondary-electrons-and-the-excitation-of-soft-x-rays-by-owen-willans-richardson, accessed on 08 July 2025

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