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Referee's report by Samuel Roslington Milner, on a paper 'A theory of electric polarization, electro-optical Kerr effect and electric saturation in liquids and solutions' by A Piekara

Reference number: RR/66/230

Date: May 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests revising the use of English. Finds the notation used to be 'unwieldy'. Refers to work of Peter Joseph William Debye and Siméon Denis Poisson.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 10 May 1939.

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RR/66/230
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May 1939
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Samuel Roslington Milner, Referee's report by Samuel Roslington Milner, on a paper 'A theory of electric polarization, electro-optical Kerr effect and electric saturation in liquids and solutions' by A Piekara, May 1939, RR/66/230, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_230/referees-report-by-samuel-roslington-milner-on-a-paper-a-theory-of-electric-polarization-electro-optical-kerr-effect-and-electric-saturation-in-liquids-and-solutions-by-a-piekara, accessed on 09 October 2024

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