Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the forces, stresses, and fluxes of energy in the electromagnetic field' by Oliver Heaviside
Reference number: RR/11/52
Date: 24 October 1891
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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, although there is a great deal in the paper that the referee can't follow. Parts of the paper are 'quite unintelligible', but the parts that he could follow are 'sound and suggestive'.
Subject: Physics
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1892].
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- RR/11/52
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- 24 October 1891
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- Rreport on paper
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Joseph John Thomson, Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the forces, stresses, and fluxes of energy in the electromagnetic field' by Oliver Heaviside, 24 October 1891, RR/11/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_52/referees-report-by-joseph-john-thomson-on-a-paper-on-the-forces-stresses-and-fluxes-of-energy-in-the-electromagnetic-field-by-oliver-heaviside, accessed on 19 July 2026
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Referees' reports: volume 11, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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