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Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'Structure and molecular anisotropy of sorbic acid, CH3 . CH : CH . CH : CH . COOH' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, John Monteath Robertson and Ida Woodward

Reference number: RR/67/276

Date: 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The x-ray photographs should be reprinted. Some changes to wording should be made.

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].

Date received not given.

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RR/67/276
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1940
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William Thomas Astbury, Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'Structure and molecular anisotropy of sorbic acid, CH3 . CH : CH . CH : CH . COOH' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, John Monteath Robertson and Ida Woodward, 1940, RR/67/276, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_276/referees-report-by-william-thomas-astbury-on-a-paper-structure-and-molecular-anisotropy-of-sorbic-acid-ch3-ch-ch-ch-ch-cooh-by-kathleen-yardley-lonsdale-john-monteath-robertson-and-ida-woodward, accessed on 10 October 2024

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