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Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'Negative atomic ions' by H S W Massey and Robert Allan Smith

Reference number: RR/58/79

Date: March 1936

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Sectional committee: Physics

The paper is interesting and includes a 'competent handling of an important question'. However, he cannot comment on the technical points of the paper. He isn't in a position to make a recommendation.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1936].

Endorsed on verso as received

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RR/58/79
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March 1936
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2 pages
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Charles Drummond Ellis

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Charles Drummond Ellis, Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'Negative atomic ions' by H S W Massey and Robert Allan Smith, March 1936, RR/58/79, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_58_79/referees-report-by-charles-drummond-ellis-on-a-paper-negative-atomic-ions-by-h-s-w-massey-and-robert-allan-smith, accessed on 16 January 2026

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