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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'A stress-strain curve for the atomic lattice of mild steel, and the physical significance of the yield point of a metal' by S L Smith and W A Wood

Reference number: RR/68/150

Date: July 1941

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'.

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 the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 21 July 1941.

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RR/68/150
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July 1941
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Standardised form (type E)
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2 pages
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'A stress-strain curve for the atomic lattice of mild steel, and the physical significance of the yield point of a metal' by S L Smith and W A Wood, July 1941, RR/68/150, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_150/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-a-stress-strain-curve-for-the-atomic-lattice-of-mild-steel-and-the-physical-significance-of-the-yield-point-of-a-metal-by-s-l-smith-and-w-a-wood, accessed on 24 June 2025

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