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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Approximately permanent electronic orbits and the origin of spectral series' by George Walker Walker

Reference number: RR/21/155

Date: November 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The hypothesis may not be correct, but any thoughtful discussion of the subject is worth publication.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1915]

Endorsed on verso as received 27 November 1914.

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RR/21/155
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November 1914
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Approximately permanent electronic orbits and the origin of spectral series' by George Walker Walker, November 1914, RR/21/155, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_155/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-approximately-permanent-electronic-orbits-and-the-origin-of-spectral-series-by-george-walker-walker, accessed on 14 January 2025

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