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Letter from Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'A possible mode of propagation of the ‘slow’ or tail component in atmospherics' by A L Hales to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/70/134

Date: 06 November 1947

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The paper is excellent and contains real progress although the author doesn't seem to have studied the paper by Appleton and Chapman.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1948].

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RR/70/134
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06 November 1947
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Standardised form (type E)
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Edward Victor Appleton

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Edward Victor Appleton, Letter from Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'A possible mode of propagation of the ‘slow’ or tail component in atmospherics' by A L Hales to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 06 November 1947, RR/70/134, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_70_134/letter-from-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-a-possible-mode-of-propagation-of-the-slow-or-tail-component-in-atmospherics-by-a-l-hales-to-david-christie-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 12 May 2026

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