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Sectional committee: Physics

If he misunderstood the last paper, he is misunderstanding the reply too. Their reply is directed to criticisms that he did not make. Their explanations may be correct as a qualitatively, but their attempt to put it into a quantitative form is 'so unsound as to be of very little value'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 2 April 1932.

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RR/44/25
Earliest possible date
April 1932
Physical description
Standardised form (type D) and notes on paper
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5 pages
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Typescript

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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Second referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The resistivity of polycrystalline wires in relation to plastic deformation, and the mechanism of plastic flow' by Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade and Bruce Chalmers, April 1932, RR/44/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_25/second-referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-the-resistivity-of-polycrystalline-wires-in-relation-to-plastic-deformation-and-the-mechanism-of-plastic-flow-by-edward-neville-da-costa-andrade-and-bruce-chalmers, accessed on 17 November 2025

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