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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'On the potential of electromagnetic phenomena in a gravitational field' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker

Reference number: RR/37/148

Date: May 1928

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

The referee has included a paper in which he reports on the paper [said paper is missing], wishes it to be referred to. There is an aspect which he objects to and wishes the author to read it.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 26 May 1928.

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RR/37/148
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May 1928
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Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'On the potential of electromagnetic phenomena in a gravitational field' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, May 1928, RR/37/148, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_37_148/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-on-the-potential-of-electromagnetic-phenomena-in-a-gravitational-field-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker, accessed on 12 September 2024

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