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Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Electromagnetic integrals' by Alfred George Greenhill

Reference number: RR/25/15

Date: May 1918

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Noes not like the terminology used by the author. Refers to work of James Clerk Maxwell.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1920]

Endorsed on verso as received 28 May 1918.

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RR/25/15
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May 1918
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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John William Nicholson

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John William Nicholson, Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Electromagnetic integrals' by Alfred George Greenhill, May 1918, RR/25/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_25_15/referees-report-by-john-william-nicholson-on-a-paper-electromagnetic-integrals-by-alfred-george-greenhill, accessed on 25 January 2026

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