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Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Secondary electronic emissions from metal foils and animal tissues' by William Valentine Mayneord

Reference number: RR/40/4

Date: May 1930

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, with modifications. The measurements are valuable but the presentation of them is inadequate. It should instead be written on a 'strict physical basis'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1930].

Endorsed on verso as received 13 March 1930.

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RR/40/4
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May 1930
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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James Chadwick, Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Secondary electronic emissions from metal foils and animal tissues' by William Valentine Mayneord, May 1930, RR/40/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_4/referees-report-by-james-chadwick-on-a-paper-secondary-electronic-emissions-from-metal-foils-and-animal-tissues-by-william-valentine-mayneord, accessed on 10 October 2024

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