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Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'The continuous absorption of light in potassium vapour' by Robert Williams Ditchburn

Reference number: RR/35/60

Date: September 1927

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Sectional committee: Physics

The first part of the paper should be reduced. Conditions for the experiments should be more clearly stated. The paper is 'admittedly rough and has nothing very novel about it'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 September 1927.

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RR/35/60
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September 1927
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2 pages
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Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'The continuous absorption of light in potassium vapour' by Robert Williams Ditchburn, September 1927, RR/35/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_35_60/referees-report-by-gordon-miller-bourne-dobson-on-a-paper-the-continuous-absorption-of-light-in-potassium-vapour-by-robert-williams-ditchburn, accessed on 11 April 2026

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