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Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The quenching of the resonance radiation of sodium' by W MacF Smith and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Reference number: RR/67/279

Date: July 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, Two of the figures should be omitted.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies that it probably shouldn't, but research departments should be consulted anyway.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 23 July 1940.

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RR/67/279
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July 1940
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William Edward Curtis, Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The quenching of the resonance radiation of sodium' by W MacF Smith and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, July 1940, RR/67/279, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_279/referees-report-by-william-edward-curtis-on-a-paper-the-quenching-of-the-resonance-radiation-of-sodium-by-w-macf-smith-and-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish, accessed on 16 September 2024

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