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Letter from Sydney Chapman, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Reference number: RR/66/285

Date: 19 December 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

The paper is of great scientific and practical value, but should be withheld for publication until after the war.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 21 December 1939.

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RR/66/285
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19 December 1939
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Sydney Chapman

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Sydney Chapman, Letter from Sydney Chapman, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 19 December 1939, RR/66/285, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_285/letter-from-sydney-chapman-to-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton-regarding-a-paper-the-air-wave-surrounding-an-expanding-sphere-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor, accessed on 11 September 2024

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