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Letter from Norman Feather, on a paper 'Slow neutron-induced activity in gold' by Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/69/292

Date: 30 September 1946

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He returns the paper and is satisfied that the author has met his criticisms apart from 'an occasional lapse into foreign idiom'.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 2 October 1946.

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RR/69/292
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30 September 1946
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Norman Feather

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Norman Feather, Letter from Norman Feather, on a paper 'Slow neutron-induced activity in gold' by Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 30 September 1946, RR/69/292, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_292/letter-from-norman-feather-on-a-paper-slow-neutron-induced-activity-in-gold-by-karl-manne-georg-siegbahn-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 11 June 2026

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