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Section 10.5.2.12

Personal Communication and Other "Nonrecoverable" Information

Acknowledge unpublished interviews, telephone calls, personal letters, notes, and other such information in both parenthetical citations and the list of works cited.


A. P. French noted that the clarity of Rutherford's prose style is not often imitated in the writing of most contemporary physicists (personal conversation, 18 April 1994).

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