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Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The dissociation energies of CO, N2, NO and CN' by Alfred Gordon Gaydon and William George Penney

Reference number: RR/68/468

Date: 1944

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The discussion is valuable, apart from the conclusions drawn.

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/68/468
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1944
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Owen Willans Richardson, Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The dissociation energies of CO, N2, NO and CN' by Alfred Gordon Gaydon and William George Penney, 1944, RR/68/468, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_468/referees-report-by-owen-willans-richardson-on-a-paper-the-dissociation-energies-of-co-n2-no-and-cn-by-alfred-gordon-gaydon-and-william-george-penney, accessed on 18 January 2025

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