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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre' by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and William Albert Hugh Rushton

Reference number: RR/69/171

Date: 1945

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. His mathematics is 'too rusty' to examine the mathematical part of the paper. with confidence. It should be examined by a mathematician or physicist familiar with electrical cable theory.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1946].

Date received not given.

Includes opened and empty envelope, marked with the Foreign Office's stamp. Has written on the back that he should referee the paper himself.

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RR/69/171
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1945
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Standardised form (type E), note on paper and envelope
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre' by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and William Albert Hugh Rushton, 1945, RR/69/171, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_171/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-the-electrical-constants-of-a-crustacean-nerve-fibre-by-alan-lloyd-hodgkin-and-william-albert-hugh-rushton, accessed on 09 July 2025

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