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Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'On the structure of the Balmer series lines of hydrogen' by John Cunningham McLennan and P Lowe

Reference number: RR/26/96

Date: July 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Cannot accept the author's interpretation of their results, but this 'is only a matter of opinion'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1921]

Endorsed on verso as received 8 July 1921.

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RR/26/96
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July 1921
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Thomas Ralph Merton, Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'On the structure of the Balmer series lines of hydrogen' by John Cunningham McLennan and P Lowe, July 1921, RR/26/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_96/referees-report-by-thomas-ralph-merton-on-a-paper-on-the-structure-of-the-balmer-series-lines-of-hydrogen-by-john-cunningham-mclennan-and-p-lowe, accessed on 13 October 2024

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