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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'Application of the coincidence method for measurements of short life periods' by Joseph Rotblat to William Lawrence Bragg

Reference number: RR/67/390

Date: 17 September 1940

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Egerton suggests C S Ellis as a referee for the paper unless Bragg is willing to accept it based on Chadwick's statement.

Bragg replies that he agrees to pass the paper based on Chadwick's recommendation.

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

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RR/67/390
Earliest possible date
17 September 1940
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Memorandum on paper
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1 page
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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'Application of the coincidence method for measurements of short life periods' by Joseph Rotblat to William Lawrence Bragg, 17 September 1940, RR/67/390, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_390/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-application-of-the-coincidence-method-for-measurements-of-short-life-periods-by-joseph-rotblat-to-william-lawrence-bragg, accessed on 21 January 2025

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