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Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The motion of a point-charge as the shortest path in a moving medium' by H F Biggs

Reference number: RR/45/91

Date: May 1932

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is not of fundamental importance, but is worthy of publication.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1932]

Endorsed on verso as received 19 May 1932.

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RR/45/91
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May 1932
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2 pages
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Ralph Howard Fowler, Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The motion of a point-charge as the shortest path in a moving medium' by H F Biggs, May 1932, RR/45/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_45_91/referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-a-paper-the-motion-of-a-point-charge-as-the-shortest-path-in-a-moving-medium-by-h-f-biggs, accessed on 14 October 2024

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