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Referee's report by Richard Whiddington, on a paper 'Determination of the adiabatic piezo-optic coefficient of liquids' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and K S Venkataraman

Reference number: RR/66/329

Date: February 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests carrying out the experiment referred to in a footnate, which would add value to the paper. Suggests adding the result of such an experiment. This is not an objection to publishing the paper in its current form however.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 15 February 1939.

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RR/66/329
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February 1939
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Richard Whiddington, Referee's report by Richard Whiddington, on a paper 'Determination of the adiabatic piezo-optic coefficient of liquids' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and K S Venkataraman, February 1939, RR/66/329, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_329/referees-report-by-richard-whiddington-on-a-paper-determination-of-the-adiabatic-piezo-optic-coefficient-of-liquids-by-chandrasekhara-venkata-raman-and-k-s-venkataraman, accessed on 11 February 2026

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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