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Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'A contribution to the theory of the Foucault test' by E H Linfoot

Reference number: RR/69/208

Date: 1945

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, The paper is a 'substantial contribution to optical theory'The paper represents the first complete account of the wave-theory. He is not competent to check the mathematics, so another referee should be found to do this.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

Date received not given.

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RR/69/208
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1945
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Harry Hemley Plaskett, Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'A contribution to the theory of the Foucault test' by E H Linfoot, 1945, RR/69/208, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_208/referees-report-by-harry-hemley-plaskett-on-a-paper-a-contribution-to-the-theory-of-the-foucault-test-by-e-h-linfoot, accessed on 19 March 2025

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