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Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'On the electric effect of rotating a dielectric in a magnetic field' by Harold Albert Wilson

Reference number: RR/16/242

Date: 22 May 1904

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Sectional Committee: not stated.

It is an interesting verification of the most modern electrodynamic theory, well executed and worthy of Philosophical Transactions. He has induced the author to make the theory on page four more intelligible.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1905].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 May 1904.

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RR/16/242
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22 May 1904
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Joseph Larmor

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Joseph Larmor, Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'On the electric effect of rotating a dielectric in a magnetic field' by Harold Albert Wilson, 22 May 1904, RR/16/242, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_242/referees-report-by-joseph-larmor-on-a-paper-on-the-electric-effect-of-rotating-a-dielectric-in-a-magnetic-field-by-harold-albert-wilson, accessed on 19 January 2025

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