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Referee's report by John Douglas Cockcroft, on a paper 'Distribution of magnetic field around simply and multiply connected supraconductors' by H Grayson Smith and J O Wilhelm

Reference number: RR/60/4

Date: 20 June 1936

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The experiments are of considerable interest. Information about the field strength should re-evaluated and they should state what self-induction would be.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 8 June 1936.

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RR/60/4
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20 June 1936
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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John Douglas Cockcroft, Referee's report by John Douglas Cockcroft, on a paper 'Distribution of magnetic field around simply and multiply connected supraconductors' by H Grayson Smith and J O Wilhelm, 20 June 1936, RR/60/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_60_4/referees-report-by-john-douglas-cockcroft-on-a-paper-distribution-of-magnetic-field-around-simply-and-multiply-connected-supraconductors-by-h-grayson-smith-and-j-o-wilhelm, accessed on 17 February 2025

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