Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the molecular scattering of light in water and the colour of the sea' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Reference number: RR/26/119
Date: November 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physics
Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the paper could be shortened, but as the author is in India this would be difficult. Suggests omitting the author's thanks.
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1922]
Endorsed on verso as received 30 November 1921.
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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the molecular scattering of light in water and the colour of the sea' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, November 1921, RR/26/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_119/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-4th-baron-rayleigh-on-a-paper-on-the-molecular-scattering-of-light-in-water-and-the-colour-of-the-sea-by-chandrasekhara-venkata-raman, accessed on 10 February 2025
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Date: 1st April 1922
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1922.0025
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