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Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'The energy loss of cosmic ray particles in metal plates' by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett and J Gordon Wilson

Reference number: RR/61/53

Date: April 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It contains much new important data.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1937].

Endorsed on verso as received 28 April 1937.

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Ernest Rutherford, Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'The energy loss of cosmic ray particles in metal plates' by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett and J Gordon Wilson, April 1937, RR/61/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_53/referees-report-by-ernest-rutherford-on-a-paper-the-energy-loss-of-cosmic-ray-particles-in-metal-plates-by-patrick-maynard-stuart-blackett-and-j-gordon-wilson, accessed on 13 January 2025

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