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Referee's report by Robert Whytlaw-Gray, on a paper 'An attempt to detect the passage of helium through a crystal lattice at high temperatures' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh

Reference number: RR/63/60

Date: 29 September 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It is of interest because it shows that the passage of helium was found to be minute.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 1 October 1937.

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29 September 1937
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Robert Whytlaw-Gray, Referee's report by Robert Whytlaw-Gray, on a paper 'An attempt to detect the passage of helium through a crystal lattice at high temperatures' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, 29 September 1937, RR/63/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_60/referees-report-by-robert-whytlaw-gray-on-a-paper-an-attempt-to-detect-the-passage-of-helium-through-a-crystal-lattice-at-high-temperatures-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh, accessed on 03 December 2024

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