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Letter from William Hume-Rothery, on a paper 'Yield points in brass crystals' by G W Ardley and Alan Howard Cottrell, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/77/137

Date: 04 August 1952

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Paper reference code: A118

Hume-Rothery feels the paper is not at present 'sufficiently finished to justify publication' by the Royal Society, however he may have misunderstood things and suggests his enquiries be submitted to the authors.

Written at Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford [England].

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Endorsed on recto as received 5 August 1952.

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RR/77/137
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04 August 1952
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William Hume-Rothery, Letter from William Hume-Rothery, on a paper 'Yield points in brass crystals' by G W Ardley and Alan Howard Cottrell, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society, 04 August 1952, RR/77/137, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_137/letter-from-william-hume-rothery-on-a-paper-yield-points-in-brass-crystals-by-g-w-ardley-and-alan-howard-cottrell-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 24 March 2025

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