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Referee's report by Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'The dynamic constants of human muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill

Reference number: RR/67/232

Date: December 1939

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The author is a master of the subject, but it is too specialised for any English scientist to report on. It is valuable and should further advance workers in this field.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received 27 Decemeber 1939.

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RR/67/232
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December 1939
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Francis John Worsley Roughton

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Francis John Worsley Roughton, Referee's report by Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'The dynamic constants of human muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill, December 1939, RR/67/232, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_232/referees-report-by-francis-john-worsley-roughton-on-a-paper-the-dynamic-constants-of-human-muscle-by-archibald-vivian-hill, accessed on 14 June 2025

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