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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The x and b rays of radioactinium' by Harold Albert Wilson

Reference number: RR/52/131

Date: December 1934

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication. Believes there is 'no useful purpose is served in adjusting a lot of numbers with no theory'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 December 1934.

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RR/52/131
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December 1934
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2 pages
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Charles Galton Darwin

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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The x and b rays of radioactinium' by Harold Albert Wilson, December 1934, RR/52/131, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_52_131/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-the-x-and-b-rays-of-radioactinium-by-harold-albert-wilson, accessed on 12 December 2024

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