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Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Wave- length standards in the first spectrum of krypton' by C V Jackson

Reference number: RR/56/44

Date: February 1936

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Encloses letter to Sir Frank Smith. Suggests giving an explanation as to why the wavelength values in the current paper are different to those in the earlier one. Refers to work by Buisson, Fabry, Derek Ainslie Jackson, Kuhn and Williams. Suggests including photographs rather than line spectra.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 12 February 1936.

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RR/56/44
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February 1936
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Owen Willans Richardson, Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Wave- length standards in the first spectrum of krypton' by C V Jackson, February 1936, RR/56/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_44/referees-report-by-owen-willans-richardson-on-a-paper-wave-length-standards-in-the-first-spectrum-of-krypton-by-c-v-jackson, accessed on 20 January 2026

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