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Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'On the reproduction and ruling of diffraction gratings' by Thomas Ralph Merton

Reference number: RR/72/195

Date: 19 December 1949

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. One of the paragraphs is confusing and would be clearer is re-arranged slightly.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1950].

Date received not given.

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RR/72/195
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19 December 1949
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Harry Hemley Plaskett, Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'On the reproduction and ruling of diffraction gratings' by Thomas Ralph Merton, 19 December 1949, RR/72/195, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_195/referees-report-by-harry-hemley-plaskett-on-a-paper-on-the-reproduction-and-ruling-of-diffraction-gratings-by-thomas-ralph-merton, accessed on 21 May 2026

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