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Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The surprising amount of energy which can be collected from gases after the electric discharge has passed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh

Reference number: RR/69/256

Date: 1946

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The drawing was damaged when he received it.

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

Date received not given.

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1946
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Owen Willans Richardson, Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The surprising amount of energy which can be collected from gases after the electric discharge has passed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, 1946, RR/69/256, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_256/referees-report-by-owen-willans-richardson-on-a-paper-the-surprising-amount-of-energy-which-can-be-collected-from-gases-after-the-electric-discharge-has-passed-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh, accessed on 17 June 2025

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