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Letter from Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'On the electricity of rain and its origin in thunderstroms' by George Clarke Simpson to Arthur Schuster

Reference number: RR/17/435

Date: 09 March 1909

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Letter to Arthur Schuster (a fellow referee of this paper), expressing that Schuster's observations on the final paragraph of the paper reflect his and that he agrees with the proposed modifications. He has not made any changes anywhere else.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1909].

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RR/17/435
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09 March 1909
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Letter on paper
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Manuscript

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Letter from Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'On the electricity of rain and its origin in thunderstroms' by George Clarke Simpson to Arthur Schuster, 09 March 1909, RR/17/435, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_435/letter-from-charles-thomson-rees-wilson-on-a-paper-on-the-electricity-of-rain-and-its-origin-in-thunderstroms-by-george-clarke-simpson-to-arthur-schuster, accessed on 14 November 2024

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