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Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton on a paper 'Hyperfine structure, zeeman effect and isotope shift in the resonance lines of potassium' by Derek Ainslie Jackson and H Kuhn

Reference number: RR/65/141

Date: February 1938

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The experimental part is 'of a very high order of merit'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 8 February 1938.

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Thomas Ralph Merton, Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton on a paper 'Hyperfine structure, zeeman effect and isotope shift in the resonance lines of potassium' by Derek Ainslie Jackson and H Kuhn, February 1938, RR/65/141, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_141/referees-report-by-thomas-ralph-merton-on-a-paper-hyperfine-structure-zeeman-effect-and-isotope-shift-in-the-resonance-lines-of-potassium-by-derek-ainslie-jackson-and-h-kuhn, accessed on 13 December 2025

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