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Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The quantum deviation of the Zeeman effect' by William Mitchinson Hicks

Reference number: RR/33/99

Date: December 1925

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The quantum conditions described in the paper are 'certainly wrong'. The paper contains 'no material contribution to scientific knowledge'. To publish the paper would decrease publications of the Royal Society's reputation.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 19 December 1925.

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RR/33/99
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December 1925
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Standardised form (type D), note on paper and typed note on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Ralph Howard Fowler

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Ralph Howard Fowler, Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The quantum deviation of the Zeeman effect' by William Mitchinson Hicks, December 1925, RR/33/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_33_99/referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-a-paper-the-quantum-deviation-of-the-zeeman-effect-by-william-mitchinson-hicks, accessed on 07 September 2026

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