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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'An investigation of the disintegration of boron by slow neutrons' by R S Wilson to William Lawrence Bragg

Reference number: RR/67/430

Date: May 1940

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Egerton thinks the paper can be passed without a report.

Bragg agrees.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 3 October 1940.

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RR/67/430
Earliest possible date
May 1940
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Memorandum on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript
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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'An investigation of the disintegration of boron by slow neutrons' by R S Wilson to William Lawrence Bragg, May 1940, RR/67/430, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_430/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-an-investigation-of-the-disintegration-of-boron-by-slow-neutrons-by-r-s-wilson-to-william-lawrence-bragg, accessed on 10 November 2025

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