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Letter from Herbert John Gough, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The phosphorescence of various solids' by John Turton Randall and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

Reference number: RR/66/240

Date: 30 January 1940

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Sectional Committee: Physics

The paper can safely be published in his opinion, but can never be completely certain whether a paper may or may not be of use to the enemy.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 1 February 1940.

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RR/66/240
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30 January 1940
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Herbert John Gough

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Herbert John Gough, Letter from Herbert John Gough, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The phosphorescence of various solids' by John Turton Randall and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, 30 January 1940, RR/66/240, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_240/letter-from-herbert-john-gough-to-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton-regarding-a-paper-the-phosphorescence-of-various-solids-by-john-turton-randall-and-maurice-hugh-frederick-wilkins, accessed on 10 December 2024

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