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Letter from William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, on a paper 'The determination of the depths and extinction coefficients of shallow water by air photography using colour filters' by J Grange Moore to [Sir Alfred]

Reference number: RR/69/124

Date: 29 May 1946

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The paper uses British units, which he is against using in scientific papers. Scientific units should be used.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1945].

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RR/69/124
Earliest possible date
29 May 1946
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Ringrose Gelston Atkins

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William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, Letter from William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, on a paper 'The determination of the depths and extinction coefficients of shallow water by air photography using colour filters' by J Grange Moore to [Sir Alfred], 29 May 1946, RR/69/124, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_124/letter-from-william-ringrose-gelston-atkins-on-a-paper-the-determination-of-the-depths-and-extinction-coefficients-of-shallow-water-by-air-photography-using-colour-filters-by-j-grange-moore-to-sir-alfred, accessed on 12 November 2024

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