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Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The quenching of the resonance radiation of sodium' by W MacF Smith and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Reference number: RR/67/280

Date: July 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The experimental part seems good, but he isn't acquainted with the aspects of the non-theoretical parts.

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 4 July 1940.

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RR/67/280
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July 1940
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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The quenching of the resonance radiation of sodium' by W MacF Smith and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, July 1940, RR/67/280, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_280/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh-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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