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Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The return of radio waves from the middle atmosphere—I' by Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, A F Wilkins and Edward George Bowen

Reference number: RR/62/89

Date: December 1936

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 21 December 1936.

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RR/62/89
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December 1936
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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The return of radio waves from the middle atmosphere—I' by Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, A F Wilkins and Edward George Bowen, December 1936, RR/62/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_62_89/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-the-return-of-radio-waves-from-the-middle-atmospherei-by-robert-alexander-watson-watt-a-f-wilkins-and-edward-george-bowen, accessed on 11 November 2025

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