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Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'A detailed study of the "radioactive decay" of, and the penetration of a-particles into, a simplified one-dimensional nucleus' by Ralph Howard Fowler and Alan Herries Wilson

Reference number: RR/38/23

Date: May 1929

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1929].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 May 1929.

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RR/38/23
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May 1929
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2 pages
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Edward Arthur Milne, Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'A detailed study of the "radioactive decay" of, and the penetration of a-particles into, a simplified one-dimensional nucleus' by Ralph Howard Fowler and Alan Herries Wilson, May 1929, RR/38/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_23/referees-report-by-edward-arthur-milne-on-a-paper-a-detailed-study-of-the-radioactive-decay-of-and-the-penetration-of-a-particles-into-a-simplified-one-dimensional-nucleus-by-ralph-howard-fowler-and-alan-herries-wilson, accessed on 09 November 2025

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