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Referee's report by Harry Work Melville, on a paper 'The polymerization of olefines induced by free radicals' by C J Danby and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Reference number: RR/68/39

Date: July 1941

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

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 2 July 1941.

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RR/68/39
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July 1941
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Harry Work Melville, Referee's report by Harry Work Melville, on a paper 'The polymerization of olefines induced by free radicals' by C J Danby and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, July 1941, RR/68/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_39/referees-report-by-harry-work-melville-on-a-paper-the-polymerization-of-olefines-induced-by-free-radicals-by-c-j-danby-and-cyril-norman-hinshelwood, accessed on 17 September 2026

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