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Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'The penetration into the sea of light of various wave-lengths as measured by emission or rectifier photo-electric cells' by Horace H Poole and William Ringrose Gelston Atkins

Reference number: RR/63/45

Date: February 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication, so long as it is drastically reduced in length. It would be condensed by eighty per cent. The proper place for this paper may be in the Journal of Scientific Instruments or a biological journal.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1937].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 February 1937.

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Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'The penetration into the sea of light of various wave-lengths as measured by emission or rectifier photo-electric cells' by Horace H Poole and William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, February 1937, RR/63/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_45/referees-report-by-gordon-miller-bourne-dobson-on-a-paper-the-penetration-into-the-sea-of-light-of-various-wave-lengths-as-measured-by-emission-or-rectifier-photo-electric-cells-by-horace-h-poole-and-william-ringrose-gelston-atkins, accessed on 19 January 2025

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