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Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Application of the phase integral method to the analysis of the diffraction and refraction of wireless waves round the earth' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley and G Millington

Reference number: RR/61/116

Date: September 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, although it is rather long. The paper could be shortened. If a reduction cannot be done, then it should be published in Philosophical Transactions.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 14 September 1937.

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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Application of the phase integral method to the analysis of the diffraction and refraction of wireless waves round the earth' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley and G Millington, September 1937, RR/61/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_116/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-application-of-the-phase-integral-method-to-the-analysis-of-the-diffraction-and-refraction-of-wireless-waves-round-the-earth-by-thomas-lydwell-eckersley-and-g-millington, accessed on 12 March 2026

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