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Second referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'Determination of the yard in wave-lengths of light' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton

Reference number: RR/44/109

Date: June 1931

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommends that the paper should be referred back to the author. His objection to the wave length has not been recognised. Most of pages 26 and 27 should be omitted.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 12 May 1931.

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RR/44/109
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June 1931
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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6 pages
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Alfred Fowler

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Alfred Fowler, Second referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'Determination of the yard in wave-lengths of light' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, June 1931, RR/44/109, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_109/second-referees-report-by-alfred-fowler-on-a-paper-determination-of-the-yard-in-wave-lengths-of-light-by-alfred-edwin-howard-tutton, accessed on 17 January 2025

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