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Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Numerical results of the theory of the diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting sphere' by Joseph Proudman, Arthur Thomas Doodson and G Kennedy

Reference number: RR/23/77

Date: July 1916

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, with modifications.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1918].

Endorsed on verso as received 8 July 1916.

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RR/23/77
Earliest possible date
July 1916
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Horace Lamb

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Horace Lamb, Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Numerical results of the theory of the diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting sphere' by Joseph Proudman, Arthur Thomas Doodson and G Kennedy, July 1916, RR/23/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_77/referees-report-by-horace-lamb-on-a-paper-numerical-results-of-the-theory-of-the-diffraction-of-a-plane-electromagnetic-wave-by-a-perfectly-conducting-sphere-by-joseph-proudman-arthur-thomas-doodson-and-g-kennedy, accessed on 11 February 2025

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