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Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the spectrum of hydrogen' by Thomas Ralph Merton and S Barratt

Reference number: RR/28/42

Date: 16 January 1922

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests omitting some of the figures. 'The paper is of immediate importance'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1922]

Endorsed on verso as received 17 January 1922.

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RR/28/42
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16 January 1922
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4 pages
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Alfred Fowler, Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the spectrum of hydrogen' by Thomas Ralph Merton and S Barratt, 16 January 1922, RR/28/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_42/referees-report-by-alfred-fowler-on-the-bakerian-lecture-on-the-spectrum-of-hydrogen-by-thomas-ralph-merton-and-s-barratt, accessed on 18 March 2025

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