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Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On periodic and transient electromagnetic waves in imperfectly conducting media' by Louis Vessot King

Reference number: RR/46/12

Date: 03 January 1933

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The results 'are based on a tacit and theoretically quite unjustified assumption' regarding the behaviour of antennae, similar to a previous paper submitted by the same author. Gives a thorough mathematical criticism.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 4 January 1933.

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RR/46/12
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03 January 1933
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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8 pages
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Douglas Rayner Hartree, Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On periodic and transient electromagnetic waves in imperfectly conducting media' by Louis Vessot King, 03 January 1933, RR/46/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_46_12/referees-report-by-douglas-rayner-hartree-on-a-paper-on-periodic-and-transient-electromagnetic-waves-in-imperfectly-conducting-media-by-louis-vessot-king, accessed on 16 March 2025

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