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Referee's report by George Paget Thomson, on a paper 'Formation of negative ions at metal surfaces' by Robert Allan Smith

Reference number: RR/65/243

Date: March 1938

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The reason given for the change of zero by four volts seems inadequate. It is a good paper that deserved to be published. He has not checked the mathematics.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 28 March 1938.

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RR/65/243
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March 1938
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George Paget Thomson, Referee's report by George Paget Thomson, on a paper 'Formation of negative ions at metal surfaces' by Robert Allan Smith, March 1938, RR/65/243, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_243/referees-report-by-george-paget-thomson-on-a-paper-formation-of-negative-ions-at-metal-surfaces-by-robert-allan-smith, accessed on 13 October 2024

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