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Letter from Norman Feather, on a paper 'The scattering of 4.2 MeV protons by protons' by A N May and Cecil Frank Powell to J D Griffith Davie, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/69/222

Date: 10 October 1946

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Apologises for keeping the paper for so long. He is satisfied that the paper is now suitable for publication. The word is 'undoubtedly important'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1947].

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RR/69/222
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10 October 1946
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Norman Feather

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Norman Feather, Letter from Norman Feather, on a paper 'The scattering of 4.2 MeV protons by protons' by A N May and Cecil Frank Powell to J D Griffith Davie, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 10 October 1946, RR/69/222, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_222/letter-from-norman-feather-on-a-paper-the-scattering-of-42-mev-protons-by-protons-by-a-n-may-and-cecil-frank-powell-to-j-d-griffith-davie-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 16 September 2026

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