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Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The emission of electricity from various substances at high temperatures' by George William Clarkson Kaye and W F Higgins

Reference number: RR/21/99

Date: May 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Agrees with John Sealy Edward Townsend [RR/21/100], in that the paper is taken up with too much numerical data, despite the data being vague and indefinite.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 19 May 1914.

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RR/21/99
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May 1914
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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The emission of electricity from various substances at high temperatures' by George William Clarkson Kaye and W F Higgins, May 1914, RR/21/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_99/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-the-emission-of-electricity-from-various-substances-at-high-temperatures-by-george-william-clarkson-kaye-and-w-f-higgins, accessed on 11 September 2024

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