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Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on two papers 'The helium content of atmospheric air' by Eugen Glueckauf and Friedrich Adolf Paneth, and 'A micro-analysis of the helium and neon contents of air' by Eugen Glueckauf

Reference number: RR/68/474

Date: 1944

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The second paper is a matter on chemistry, which he is not qualified to judge, but the paper seems good.

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/68/474
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1944
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2 pages
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Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on two papers 'The helium content of atmospheric air' by Eugen Glueckauf and Friedrich Adolf Paneth, and 'A micro-analysis of the helium and neon contents of air' by Eugen Glueckauf, 1944, RR/68/474, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_474/referees-report-by-gordon-miller-bourne-dobson-on-two-papers-the-helium-content-of-atmospheric-air-by-eugen-glueckauf-and-friedrich-adolf-paneth-and-a-micro-analysis-of-the-helium-and-neon-contents-of-air-by-eugen-glueckauf, accessed on 17 February 2026

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