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Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Aberration diffraction effects' by G C Steward

Reference number: RR/29/57

Date: January 1923

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper will be 'very expensive' to print. He does not know what can be cut out.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1926].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 January 1923.

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RR/29/57
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January 1923
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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John William Nicholson

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John William Nicholson, Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Aberration diffraction effects' by G C Steward, January 1923, RR/29/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_29_57/referees-report-by-john-william-nicholson-on-a-paper-aberration-diffraction-effects-by-g-c-steward, accessed on 11 November 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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