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Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The standardization of photo-electric cells for the measurement of visible light' by H H Poole and William Ringrose Gelston Atkins

Reference number: RR/56/70

Date: February 1935

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests improving the method of referencing other works. Finds the paper overweighted with detail, but does not think any can be removed without rewuiring rewriting. Approves of the new title.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 12 February 1935.

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RR/56/70
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February 1935
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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The standardization of photo-electric cells for the measurement of visible light' by H H Poole and William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, February 1935, RR/56/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_70/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-the-standardization-of-photo-electric-cells-for-the-measurement-of-visible-light-by-h-h-poole-and-william-ringrose-gelston-atkins, accessed on 20 January 2026

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