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Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'On the action of ultra-violet sunlight upon the upper atmosphere' by Meghnad N Saha

Reference number: RR/62/5

Date: September 1936

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Sectional Committee: Physics

No clear statement regarding publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The arguments advanced have been published prviously by the author. No evidence is given for the challenge to Sydney Chapman's Bakerian lecture. Considers this very nearly a duplicate publication of the earlier work.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 22 September 1936.

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RR/62/5
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September 1936
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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'On the action of ultra-violet sunlight upon the upper atmosphere' by Meghnad N Saha, September 1936, RR/62/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_62_5/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-on-the-action-of-ultra-violet-sunlight-upon-the-upper-atmosphere-by-meghnad-n-saha, accessed on 11 March 2026

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