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Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'The continuous absorption of light in potassium vapour' by Robert Williams Ditchburn

Reference number: RR/35/61

Date: September 1927

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It is a 'substantial contribution to knowledge on an important problem'. Modifications should be made.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 26 September 1927.

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RR/35/61
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September 1927
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Edward Arthur Milne, Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'The continuous absorption of light in potassium vapour' by Robert Williams Ditchburn, September 1927, RR/35/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_35_61/referees-report-by-edward-arthur-milne-on-a-paper-the-continuous-absorption-of-light-in-potassium-vapour-by-robert-williams-ditchburn, accessed on 14 October 2024

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