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Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Superflow of helium II through narrow slits' by R Bowers and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn

Reference number: RR/75/342

Date: 08 January 1952

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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A297

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Allen comments the part of the paper discussing 'Thermal Flow' is limited by the absence of actual measurements, describes parts which are difficult to follow, and remarks the paper 'hangs on the interpretation of Fig.6.'.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1952].

Date received not given.

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John Frank Allen, Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Superflow of helium II through narrow slits' by R Bowers and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn, 08 January 1952, RR/75/342, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_75_342/referees-report-by-john-frank-allen-on-a-paper-superflow-of-helium-ii-through-narrow-slits-by-r-bowers-and-kurt-alfred-georg-mendelssohn, accessed on 14 May 2026

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