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Referee's report by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the spectrum of hydrogen' by Thomas Ralph Merton and S Barratt

Reference number: RR/28/43

Date: January 1922

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests adding further explanation of the method. Refers to work of Joseph John Thomson [Proceedings Vol.58, 1895], to whose work the authors' attention should be drawn.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 24 January 1922.

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RR/28/43
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January 1922
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2 pages
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Robert John Strutt

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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the spectrum of hydrogen' by Thomas Ralph Merton and S Barratt, January 1922, RR/28/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_43/referees-report-by-robert-strutt-4th-baron-rayleigh-on-the-bakerian-lecture-on-the-spectrum-of-hydrogen-by-thomas-ralph-merton-and-s-barratt, accessed on 11 December 2025

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