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Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The structure and electrification of smoke particles' by Hubert Sutton Patterson, Robert Whytlaw-Gray, and W Cawood

Reference number: RR/40/31

Date: 1929

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is not of high scientific importance but is not without merit. The author should be asked to condense the paper to half of it's current length.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 1929.

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RR/40/31
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1929
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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The structure and electrification of smoke particles' by Hubert Sutton Patterson, Robert Whytlaw-Gray, and W Cawood, 1929, RR/40/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_31/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-the-structure-and-electrification-of-smoke-particles-by-hubert-sutton-patterson-robert-whytlaw-gray-and-w-cawood, accessed on 17 June 2026

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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