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Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin on a paper 'The conducitivity of gases under the becquerel rays' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh

Reference number: RR/15/112

Date: January 1901

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions in full and without modification, including all the illustrations. The paper is an 'exceedingly valuable contribution to knowledge'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1901].

Endorsed on verso as received 5 February, 1901.

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RR/15/112
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January 1901
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2 pages
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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin on a paper 'The conducitivity of gases under the becquerel rays' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, January 1901, RR/15/112, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_112/referees-report-by-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-on-a-paper-the-conducitivity-of-gases-under-the-becquerel-rays-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh, accessed on 10 December 2024

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