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Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The hyperfine structure of the Zeeman components of the resonance lines of sodium' by Derek Ainslie Jackson and H Kuhn

Reference number: RR/65/140

Date: April 1938

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Some of the figures could be reduced in size. From an experimental point of view, the work is definite and a notable achievement in the field.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 28 April 1938.

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William Edward Curtis, Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The hyperfine structure of the Zeeman components of the resonance lines of sodium' by Derek Ainslie Jackson and H Kuhn, April 1938, RR/65/140, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_140/referees-report-by-william-edward-curtis-on-a-paper-the-hyperfine-structure-of-the-zeeman-components-of-the-resonance-lines-of-sodium-by-derek-ainslie-jackson-and-h-kuhn, accessed on 27 April 2025

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