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Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Determinations of the Rydberg constants, e/m, and the fine structures of Ha and Da by means of a reflexion echelon' by J W Drinkwater, Owen Willans Richardson and W Ewart Williams

Reference number: RR/66/74

Date: October 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Requests careful proof-reading of the references between the text and plates.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 30 October 1939.

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RR/66/74
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William Edward Curtis, Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Determinations of the Rydberg constants, e/m, and the fine structures of Ha and Da by means of a reflexion echelon' by J W Drinkwater, Owen Willans Richardson and W Ewart Williams, October 1939, RR/66/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_74/referees-report-by-william-edward-curtis-on-a-paper-determinations-of-the-rydberg-constants-em-and-the-fine-structures-of-ha-and-da-by-means-of-a-reflexion-echelon-by-j-w-drinkwater-owen-willans-richardson-and-w-ewart-williams, accessed on 12 July 2026

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