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Reference numberMM/22/59
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Edward Victor Appleton to A C Egerton, The Royal Society, Burlington House
Date22 January 1942
DescriptionOliphant's suggestion came from a discussion with Akers, whose Tube Alloys Technical Committee had just debated the control of information likely to be useful to the enemy. Asks Egerton to write to Paneth to say that his lecture 'should carefully refrain from speculating on the possibility of trans-uranium elements and the methods by which they might be produced'. Copy marked 'Secret'.
Extent2p
FormatTypescript
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA5602Appleton; Sir; Edward Victor (1892 - 1965)1892 - 1965
NA8212Egerton; Sir; Alfred Charles Glyn (1886 - 1959); chemist1886 - 1959
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