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Referee's report by Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, on a paper 'Molecular anisotropy of urea, CO(NH2)2, and of related compounds' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale

Reference number: RR/67/275

Date: 14 October 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is concise, clear and interesting. He is not competent to judge the work fully, but the conclusions seem reasonable.

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, 1941].

Endorsed on verso as received 16 October 1940.

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RR/67/275
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14 October 1940
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Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, Referee's report by Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, on a paper 'Molecular anisotropy of urea, CO(NH2)2, and of related compounds' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, 14 October 1940, RR/67/275, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_275/referees-report-by-nevil-vincent-sidgwick-on-a-paper-molecular-anisotropy-of-urea-conh22-and-of-related-compounds-by-kathleen-yardley-lonsdale, accessed on 16 September 2024

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