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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The quantum deviation of the Zeeman effect' by William Mitchinson Hicks

Reference number: RR/33/98

Date: March 1926

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The paper has 'no application to the Zeeman effect'. The authors theory about loops of orbits is wrong. Publishing the paper would 'suggest a very defective appreciation of the present state of the atomic theory'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 9 March 1926.

Reference number
RR/33/98
Earliest possible date
March 1926
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Standardised form (type D), note on paper and typed report on paper
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7 pages
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Typescript
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Charles Galton Darwin

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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The quantum deviation of the Zeeman effect' by William Mitchinson Hicks, March 1926, RR/33/98, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_33_98/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-the-quantum-deviation-of-the-zeeman-effect-by-william-mitchinson-hicks, accessed on 18 August 2026

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