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Referee's report by Geogre Paget Thomson, on a paper 'Physical properties of surfaces IV—Polishing, surface flow and the formation of the beilby layer' by Frank Philip Bowden and T P Hughes

Reference number: RR/61/66

Date: March 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. A better description of the apparatus should be added and reference should be given to Hopkins with regards to polished surfaces. One of the figures is unconvincing.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 3 March 1937.

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George Paget Thomson, Referee's report by Geogre Paget Thomson, on a paper 'Physical properties of surfaces IV—Polishing, surface flow and the formation of the beilby layer' by Frank Philip Bowden and T P Hughes, March 1937, RR/61/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_66/referees-report-by-geogre-paget-thomson-on-a-paper-physical-properties-of-surfaces-ivpolishing-surface-flow-and-the-formation-of-the-beilby-layer-by-frank-philip-bowden-and-t-p-hughes, accessed on 06 December 2024

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