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Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on the photochemical bleaching of visual purple solutions' by H J A Dartnall, C F Goodeve and R J Lythgoe

Reference number: RR/61/107

Date: June 1937

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. Some modifications could be made.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 23 June 1937.

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June 1937
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Thomas Smith, Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on the photochemical bleaching of visual purple solutions' by H J A Dartnall, C F Goodeve and R J Lythgoe, June 1937, RR/61/107, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_107/referees-report-by-thomas-smith-on-a-paper-the-effect-of-temperature-on-the-photochemical-bleaching-of-visual-purple-solutions-by-h-j-a-dartnall-c-f-goodeve-and-r-j-lythgoe, accessed on 19 July 2025

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