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Referee's report by Cecil Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'Experiments on molecular scattering in gases. II.—The collision of sodium and potassium atoms with mercury' by L F Broadway

Reference number: RR/49/39

Date: May 1933

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Comments on the author's opinion regarding classical theory. Finds the arguments as they stand unconvincing.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1933]

Endorsed on verso as received 12 May 1933.

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May 1933
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Charles Drummond Ellis, Referee's report by Cecil Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'Experiments on molecular scattering in gases. II.—The collision of sodium and potassium atoms with mercury' by L F Broadway, May 1933, RR/49/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_49_39/referees-report-by-cecil-drummond-ellis-on-a-paper-experiments-on-molecular-scattering-in-gases-iithe-collision-of-sodium-and-potassium-atoms-with-mercury-by-l-f-broadway, accessed on 21 March 2025

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