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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The arrangement of the mathematical formulae and results should be revised.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1939].

Endorsed on verso as received 2 June 1938.

Reference number
RR/65/234
Earliest possible date
June 1938
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Typescript

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Harold Spencer Jones

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Harold Spencer Jones, Referee's report by Harold Spencer Jones, on a paper 'The refraction and dispersion of air and dispersion of air for the visible spectrum' by J E Sears and H Barrell, June 1938, RR/65/234, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_234/referees-report-by-harold-spencer-jones-on-a-paper-the-refraction-and-dispersion-of-air-and-dispersion-of-air-for-the-visible-spectrum-by-j-e-sears-and-h-barrell, accessed on 06 November 2025

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