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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'On the theory of visco-elasticity: a thermodynamical treatment of visco-elasticity, and some problems of the vibrations of visco-elastic solids' by J H C Thompson

Reference number: RR/47/129

Date: 30 September 1932

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in its present form. It is 'too much like a fellowship thesis' and it should be shortened. He isn't competent enough to judge the mathematics in the paper though he imagine it is sound as 'Prof[essor]Milne has seen it'. It needs to be extensively reduced in length.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1933].

Endorsed on verso as received 1 Ostober 1932.

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RR/47/129
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30 September 1932
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3 pages
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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'On the theory of visco-elasticity: a thermodynamical treatment of visco-elasticity, and some problems of the vibrations of visco-elastic solids' by J H C Thompson, 30 September 1932, RR/47/129, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_129/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-on-the-theory-of-visco-elasticity-a-thermodynamical-treatment-of-visco-elasticity-and-some-problems-of-the-vibrations-of-visco-elastic-solids-by-j-h-c-thompson, accessed on 07 November 2025

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