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Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The emission of light from spark discharges' by J D Craggs and J M Meek

Reference number: RR/69/74

Date: 1945

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Sectional committee: Physics

Is unsure whether the paper should be published.. The author's claim about what they have achieved is 'very modest'. The conclusions have very little substance. If published it should be cut down by a third.

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

Date received not given.

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RR/69/74
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1945
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1 page
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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The emission of light from spark discharges' by J D Craggs and J M Meek, 1945, RR/69/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_74/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-the-emission-of-light-from-spark-discharges-by-j-d-craggs-and-j-m-meek, accessed on 19 September 2024

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