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Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Motion of electrons in gases' by John Sealy Edward Townsend

Reference number: RR/38/158

Date: August 1928

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full, except for section one which is unneccessary.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 15 August 1928.

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RR/38/158
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August 1928
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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 'Motion of electrons in gases' by John Sealy Edward Townsend, August 1928, RR/38/158, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_158/referees-report-by-charles-thomson-rees-wilson-on-a-paper-motion-of-electrons-in-gases-by-john-sealy-edward-townsend, accessed on 24 May 2025

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