Letter and referee's report by Joseph Proudman on a paper 'The production of waves by the sudden release of a spherical distribution of compressed air in the atmosphere' by J J Unwin
Reference number: RR/67/422
Date: 06 September 1940
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Sectional committee: Mathematics
Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is of practical importance and the results are valuable.
Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies yes. Later retracts this view in the letter, once he has read Stradling's opinions.
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1941].
Endorsed on verso as received 9 September 1940.
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- 06 September 1940
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Joseph Proudman, Letter and referee's report by Joseph Proudman on a paper 'The production of waves by the sudden release of a spherical distribution of compressed air in the atmosphere' by J J Unwin, 06 September 1940, RR/67/422, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_422/letter-and-referees-report-by-joseph-proudman-on-a-paper-the-production-of-waves-by-the-sudden-release-of-a-spherical-distribution-of-compressed-air-in-the-atmosphere-by-j-j-unwin, accessed on 19 April 2025
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Date: 12th June 1941
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1941.0050
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Referees' reports on scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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Referees' reports: volume 67, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1940 Reference number: RR/67
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