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Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The apparent sizes of atoms in metallic crystals with special reference to aluminium and indium, and the electronic state of magnesium' by William Hume-Rothery and Geoffrey Vincent Raynor

Reference number: RR/67/245

Date: September 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Some modifications to wording are required.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 1 October 1940.

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RR/67/245
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Nevill Francis Mott, Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The apparent sizes of atoms in metallic crystals with special reference to aluminium and indium, and the electronic state of magnesium' by William Hume-Rothery and Geoffrey Vincent Raynor, September 1940, RR/67/245, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_245/referees-report-by-nevill-francis-mott-on-a-paper-the-apparent-sizes-of-atoms-in-metallic-crystals-with-special-reference-to-aluminium-and-indium-and-the-electronic-state-of-magnesium-by-william-hume-rothery-and-geoffrey-vincent-raynor, accessed on 06 February 2025

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