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Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Vacuum wave-length measurements in the iron spectrum by means of the reflection echelon grating' by W Ewart Williams and A Middleton

Reference number: RR/64/134

Date: February 1938

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests adding wavelength and/or wavenumber scales to the plates, to improve their usefulness.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 14 February 1938.

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William Edward Curtis, Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Vacuum wave-length measurements in the iron spectrum by means of the reflection echelon grating' by W Ewart Williams and A Middleton, February 1938, RR/64/134, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_64_134/referees-report-by-william-edward-curtis-on-a-paper-vacuum-wave-length-measurements-in-the-iron-spectrum-by-means-of-the-reflection-echelon-grating-by-w-ewart-williams-and-a-middleton, accessed on 11 February 2025

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