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Referee's report by George Paget Thomson, on a paper 'An investigation of the scattering of high-energy particles from the cyclotron by the photographic method, I. The experimental method' by James Chadwick, A N May, Thomas Gerald Pickavance and Cecil Frank Powell

Reference number: RR/68/273

Date: 1943

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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']

No received date.

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RR/68/273
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1943
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George Paget Thomson, Referee's report by George Paget Thomson, on a paper 'An investigation of the scattering of high-energy particles from the cyclotron by the photographic method, I. The experimental method' by James Chadwick, A N May, Thomas Gerald Pickavance and Cecil Frank Powell, 1943, RR/68/273, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_273/referees-report-by-george-paget-thomson-on-a-paper-an-investigation-of-the-scattering-of-high-energy-particles-from-the-cyclotron-by-the-photographic-method-i-the-experimental-method-by-james-chadwick-a-n-may-thomas-gerald-pickavance-and-cecil-frank-powell, accessed on 23 January 2026

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