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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The summary should be amended that bring out clearly the fact that the hypothesis leads to a contradiction. The theory is ambiguous.

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

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/70/6
Earliest possible date
1947
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
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1 page
Format
Typescript
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Rudolf Ernst Peierls

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Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'A generalization of the method of separating longitudinal and transverse waves in electrodynamics' by Sonja Ashauer, 1947, RR/70/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_70_6/referees-report-by-rudolf-ernst-peierls-on-a-paper-a-generalization-of-the-method-of-separating-longitudinal-and-transverse-waves-in-electrodynamics-by-sonja-ashauer, accessed on 12 May 2025

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