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Referee's report by Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, on a paper 'X-ray electrons expelled from metals by silver Ka1 radiations' by C J Birkett Clews and Harold Roper Robinson

Reference number: RR/67/60

Date: June 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is an extension of a paper previously published in Proceedings.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received 11 June 1940.

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RR/67/60
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June 1940
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2 pages
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Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, Referee's report by Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, on a paper 'X-ray electrons expelled from metals by silver Ka1 radiations' by C J Birkett Clews and Harold Roper Robinson, June 1940, RR/67/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_60/referees-report-by-marcus-laurence-elwin-oliphant-on-a-paper-x-ray-electrons-expelled-from-metals-by-silver-ka1-radiations-by-c-j-birkett-clews-and-harold-roper-robinson, accessed on 19 July 2025

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