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Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Velocity of propagation of light in vacuo in a transverse magnetic field' by Clinton Coleridge Farr and C J Banwell

Reference number: RR/47/45

Date: April 1932

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Sectional committee: Physics

Referee feels they cannot offer an opinion on the paper. It represents careful experimental work and the Committee should take into account the difficulties that the authors must have faced working on the paper.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 28 April 1932.

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RR/47/45
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April 1932
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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Velocity of propagation of light in vacuo in a transverse magnetic field' by Clinton Coleridge Farr and C J Banwell, April 1932, RR/47/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_45/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-velocity-of-propagation-of-light-in-vacuo-in-a-transverse-magnetic-field-by-clinton-coleridge-farr-and-c-j-banwell, accessed on 01 December 2024

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