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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies that he doesn't think so.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1941].

Endorsed on verso as received 16 October 1940.

Reference number
RR/67/389
Earliest possible date
October 1940
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The distribution of electricity in thunderclouds, II' by G D Robinson and George Clarke Simpson, October 1940, RR/67/389, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_389/referees-report-by-charles-thomson-rees-wilson-on-a-paper-the-distribution-of-electricity-in-thunderclouds-ii-by-g-d-robinson-and-george-clarke-simpson, accessed on 11 February 2025

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