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Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Isotope shift in the resonance line of magnesium' by Derek Ainslie Jackson and H Kuhn

Reference number: RR/56/46

Date: January 1936

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests cutting the paper down, including removing the description of the method, which has been published previously in the Proceedings. Finds some of the information difficult to interpret.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 January 1936.

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RR/56/46
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January 1936
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William Edward Curtis, Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Isotope shift in the resonance line of magnesium' by Derek Ainslie Jackson and H Kuhn, January 1936, RR/56/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_46/referees-report-by-william-edward-curtis-on-a-paper-isotope-shift-in-the-resonance-line-of-magnesium-by-derek-ainslie-jackson-and-h-kuhn, accessed on 18 January 2026

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