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Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'The constitution of the secondary spectrum of hydrogen' by William Mitchinson Hicks

Reference number: RR/28/104

Date: February 1924

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Finds the author's use of terminology unusual and difficult to follow. As the paper represents a great deal of labour, suggests the Council be aksed if they would allow an abstract to be printed.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 13 February 1924.

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RR/28/104
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February 1924
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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 constitution of the secondary spectrum of hydrogen' by William Mitchinson Hicks, February 1924, RR/28/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_104/referees-report-by-frederick-alexander-lindemann-viscount-cherwell-on-a-paper-the-constitution-of-the-secondary-spectrum-of-hydrogen-by-william-mitchinson-hicks, accessed on 07 December 2025

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