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Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Series lines in spark spectra' by Alfred Fowler

Reference number: RR/21/71

Date: May 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests criticisms and errors in the calculations. Refers to work by Ritzler [?] and Henry Augustus Rowland.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 5 May 1914.

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RR/21/71
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May 1914
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Standardised form (type A) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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William Mitchinson Hicks

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William Mitchinson Hicks, Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Series lines in spark spectra' by Alfred Fowler, May 1914, RR/21/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_71/referees-report-by-william-mitchinson-hicks-on-the-bakerian-lecture-series-lines-in-spark-spectra-by-alfred-fowler, accessed on 21 January 2025

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