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Second referee's report by Edmund John Bowen, on a paper 'The mechanism of polymerization reactions. I. The polymerization of styrene and methyl methacrylate' by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and E F Brookman

Reference number: RR/66/217

Date: March 1939

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper has been shortened but still may be longer than the limit for a Proceedings paper. Still finds the paper lengthy but is not prepared to requests sending the paper back to the authors again.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 3 March 1939.

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RR/66/217
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March 1939
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2 pages
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Edmund John Bowen

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Edmund John Bowen, Second referee's report by Edmund John Bowen, on a paper 'The mechanism of polymerization reactions. I. The polymerization of styrene and methyl methacrylate' by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and E F Brookman, March 1939, RR/66/217, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_217/second-referees-report-by-edmund-john-bowen-on-a-paper-the-mechanism-of-polymerization-reactions-i-the-polymerization-of-styrene-and-methyl-methacrylate-by-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish-and-e-f-brookman, accessed on 07 November 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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