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Encloses a paper by Wilkins and Garlick, which will be printed for confidential circulation to government departments. Circulation should be the same as the Randall and Wilkins paper. Asks what departments may like the opportunity to see the paper.

[Both papers published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1945].

Reference number
RR/67/377
Earliest possible date
26 October 1943
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Typescript

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Nevill Francis Mott

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Nevill Francis Mott, Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on two papers 'Phosphorescence and electron traps - I. The study of trap distributions' and Phosphorescence and electron traps II. The interpretation of long-period phosphorescence' by John Turton Randall and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins to Nevill Francis Mott, 26 October 1943, RR/67/377, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_377/letter-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-two-papers-phosphorescence-and-electron-traps-i-the-study-of-trap-distributions-and-phosphorescence-and-electron-traps-ii-the-interpretation-of-long-period-phosphorescence-by-john-turton-randall-and-maurice-hugh-frederick-wilkins-to-nevill-francis-mott, accessed on 17 January 2025

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