Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'An absolute determination of the acceleration due to gravity' by J S Clark
Reference number: RR/65/57
Date: August 1938
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Sectional committee: Physics
Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is a 'stupendous piece of work on an absolute value of the first importance'. Every part of it is essential.
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1939].
Endorsed on verso as received 22 August 1938.
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- RR/65/57
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- August 1938
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- 2 pages
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An absolute determination of the acceleration due to gravity External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 17th February 1939
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1939.0005
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Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, on a paper 'An absolute determination of the acceleration due to gravity' by J S Clark
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Referees' reports: volume 65, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1938 Reference number: RR/65
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