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Referee's report by James Chadwick and Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Deviation from the Coulomb law for the proton' by Herbert Fröhlich, Walter Heinrich Heitler and B Kahn

Reference number: RR/66/87

Date: March 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Is doubtful of the conclusions drawn and assumptions made by the authors.

Note by Charles Galton Darwin recommends the paper for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Does not fully trust the results, but seems right. 'Still no worse than others of same kind'.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 20 March 1939.

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RR/66/87
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March 1939
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4 pages
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Charles Galton Darwin

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James Chadwick, Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by James Chadwick and Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Deviation from the Coulomb law for the proton' by Herbert Fröhlich, Walter Heinrich Heitler and B Kahn, March 1939, RR/66/87, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_87/referees-report-by-james-chadwick-and-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-deviation-from-the-coulomb-law-for-the-proton-by-herbert-fröhlich-walter-heinrich-heitler-and-b-kahn, accessed on 20 May 2026

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