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Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The international temperature scale between 0° and 100° C' by J A Hall

Reference number: RR/38/59

Date: July 1929

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. The paper is a 'very necessary and laborious comparison of the international scale'. The results should be used by researchers in the future.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1930].

Endorsed on verso as received 31 July 1929.

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RR/38/59
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July 1929
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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The international temperature scale between 0° and 100° C' by J A Hall, July 1929, RR/38/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_59/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-the-international-temperature-scale-between-0-and-100-c-by-j-a-hall, accessed on 13 May 2025

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