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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Longitudinal asymmetry of scattered photo-electrons and the asymmetrical Maxwell field of accelerated electrons' by L Simons

Reference number: RR/44/67

Date: January 1932

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication. The author doesn't include the 'exactitude that is expected nowadays in this sort of work'. However, the work seems good apart from it's overemphasis on technical points. If another author recommends the paper, he will have no objection.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 22 January 1932.

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RR/44/67
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January 1932
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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Longitudinal asymmetry of scattered photo-electrons and the asymmetrical Maxwell field of accelerated electrons' by L Simons, January 1932, RR/44/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_67/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-longitudinal-asymmetry-of-scattered-photo-electrons-and-the-asymmetrical-maxwell-field-of-accelerated-electrons-by-l-simons, accessed on 23 January 2026

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