Referee's report by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, on a paper 'The theory of reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere' by Maurice Vincent Wilkes
Reference number: RR/66/333
Date: October 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics
Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper presents a great advance on previous methods. Refers to work of Green and Builder. However, doubts if the analysis is relevant. Comments on the results.
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
Endorsed on verso as received 26 October 1939.
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- October 1939
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Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, Referee's report by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, on a paper 'The theory of reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere' by Maurice Vincent Wilkes, October 1939, RR/66/333, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_333/referees-report-by-thomas-lydwell-eckersley-on-a-paper-the-theory-of-reflexion-of-very-long-wireless-waves-from-the-ionosphere-by-maurice-vincent-wilkes, accessed on 11 February 2025
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Date: 1st April 1940
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1940.0050
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