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Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on two papers 'The determination of the vapour-pressure curve of liquid helium below 1.6° K using a magnetic thermometer' and 'The effective susceptibility of a paramagnetic powder' by Brebis Bleaney and R A Hull

Reference number: RR/67/34

Date: December 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The papers are useful as they contain the 'first good determination of the absolute temperature scale between 1.6oK and 1.0oK. The introduction of uniformity in the description of accuracy.

[Both papers published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1941].

Endorsed on verso as received 31 December 1940.

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December 1940
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John Frank Allen, Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on two papers 'The determination of the vapour-pressure curve of liquid helium below 1.6° K using a magnetic thermometer' and 'The effective susceptibility of a paramagnetic powder' by Brebis Bleaney and R A Hull, December 1940, RR/67/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_34/referees-report-by-john-frank-allen-on-two-papers-the-determination-of-the-vapour-pressure-curve-of-liquid-helium-below-16-k-using-a-magnetic-thermometer-and-the-effective-susceptibility-of-a-paramagnetic-powder-by-brebis-bleaney-and-r-a-hull, accessed on 16 January 2026

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