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Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'A new method of determining half-value periods from observations with a single Geiger counter' by A G Ward

Reference number: RR/68/264

Date: 1942

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds fault with a comment about half-life periods. Refers to work of Joseph Rotblat. Suggests omitting figure one.

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/68/264
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1942
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James Chadwick, Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'A new method of determining half-value periods from observations with a single Geiger counter' by A G Ward, 1942, RR/68/264, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_264/referees-report-by-james-chadwick-on-a-paper-a-new-method-of-determining-half-value-periods-from-observations-with-a-single-geiger-counter-by-a-g-ward, accessed on 12 February 2025

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