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Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The behaviour of scattering media in fully diffused light' by H J Channon, F F Renwick and B V Storr

Reference number: RR/24/28

Date: April 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Provides criticism of the paper. Refers to work of George Gabriel Stokes.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1918]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 April 1917.

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RR/24/28
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April 1917
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4 pages
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John William Strutt, Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'The behaviour of scattering media in fully diffused light' by H J Channon, F F Renwick and B V Storr, April 1917, RR/24/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_28/referees-report-by-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-on-a-paper-the-behaviour-of-scattering-media-in-fully-diffused-light-by-h-j-channon-f-f-renwick-and-b-v-storr, accessed on 03 December 2024

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