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Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, on a paper 'Applications of photographic method to problems in nuclear physics. I (a) The determination of the energy of homogeneous groups of a-particles and protons (b) The determination of the energy of fast neutrons' by Cecil Frank Powell

Reference number: RR/68/250

Date: 27 June 1942

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper requires no alteration.

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']

No received date.

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RR/68/250
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27 June 1942
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Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, on a paper 'Applications of photographic method to problems in nuclear physics. I (a) The determination of the energy of homogeneous groups of a-particles and protons (b) The determination of the energy of fast neutrons' by Cecil Frank Powell, 27 June 1942, RR/68/250, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_250/referees-report-by-patrick-maynard-stuart-blackett-baron-blackett-of-chelsea-on-a-paper-applications-of-photographic-method-to-problems-in-nuclear-physics-i-a-the-determination-of-the-energy-of-homogeneous-groups-of-a-particles-and-protons-b-the-determination-of-the-energy-of-fast-neutrons-by-cecil-frank-powell, accessed on 09 July 2025

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