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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The electrification of two parallel circular discs' by John William Nicholson

Reference number: RR/31/31

Date: May 1924

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the author be asked to condense the paper a little, as 'his mathematical style is rather luxuriant'. As the paper as it stands would cost £80 to print, suggests the author be told the Society would be willing to print for £50 if it could be reduced sufficiently.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1924]

Endorsed on verso as received 17 May 1924.

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RR/31/31
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May 1924
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4 pages
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The electrification of two parallel circular discs' by John William Nicholson, May 1924, RR/31/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_31_31/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-the-electrification-of-two-parallel-circular-discs-by-john-william-nicholson, accessed on 08 September 2024

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