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Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'On the transmission of light by thin films of metal' by S Ramaswamy

Reference number: RR/40/60

Date: February 1931

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Sectional committee: Physics

Does not state if the paper is recommended for publication. The statement given on the method of calculation is not clear and seems wrong.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1931].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 Febaruary 1931.

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RR/40/60
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February 1931
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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 'On the transmission of light by thin films of metal' by S Ramaswamy, February 1931, RR/40/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_60/referees-report-by-gordon-miller-bourne-dobson-on-a-paper-on-the-transmission-of-light-by-thin-films-of-metal-by-s-ramaswamy, accessed on 19 January 2025

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