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Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The total reflexion of electric waves the interface between two media' by Hector Munro Macdonald

Reference number: RR/39/83

Date: February 1929

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1929]

Endorsed on verso as received 1 February 1929.

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RR/39/83
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February 1929
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Sydney Chapman, Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The total reflexion of electric waves the interface between two media' by Hector Munro Macdonald, February 1929, RR/39/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_39_83/referees-report-by-sydney-chapman-on-a-paper-the-total-reflexion-of-electric-waves-the-interface-between-two-media-by-hector-munro-macdonald, accessed on 13 May 2025

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