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Sectional Committee: Physics

Refuses to give an opinion regarding publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The main parts of the paper deal with physical chemistry, suggests the paper be more appropriately submitted to Eric Keightley Rideal, John Edward Lennard-Jones or Ralph Howard Fowler. Finds the spectroscopic parts to be correct.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 21 August 1933.

Reference number
RR/51/59
Earliest possible date
18 August 1933
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Alfred Fowler

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Alfred Fowler, Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'On the absorption spectra of the sulphides of zinc, cadmium, and mercury from ? 7000-1900, and the heat of dissociation of sulphur' by P K Sen-gupta, 18 August 1933, RR/51/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_51_59/referees-report-by-alfred-fowler-on-a-paper-on-the-absorption-spectra-of-the-sulphides-of-zinc-cadmium-and-mercury-from-7000-1900-and-the-heat-of-dissociation-of-sulphur-by-p-k-sen-gupta, accessed on 06 February 2025

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