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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the paper should be reduced. Considers the theoretical part not new and the numerical part only of interest for practical applications. Assumes Dugald Clerk 'is of a contrary opinion, and on such a question I should not wish to contradict him'.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 8 June 1921.

Reference number
RR/26/71
Earliest possible date
June 1921
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Frederick Alexander Lindemann

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Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'The ignition of gases by electric sparks' by Edward Taylor Jones, J D Morgan and R V Wheeler, June 1921, RR/26/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_71/referees-report-by-frederick-alexander-lindemann-viscount-cherwell-on-a-paper-the-ignition-of-gases-by-electric-sparks-by-edward-taylor-jones-j-d-morgan-and-r-v-wheeler, accessed on 10 February 2025

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