Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Diffraction from an irregular screen with applications to ionospheric problems' by H G Booker, John Ashworth Ratcliffe and D H Shinn
Reference number: RR/72/36
Date: 1949

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Sectional committee: Physics
Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper is fundamental and novel.
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1950].
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- 1949
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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Diffraction from an irregular screen with applications to ionospheric problems' by H G Booker, John Ashworth Ratcliffe and D H Shinn, 1949, RR/72/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_36/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-diffraction-from-an-irregular-screen-with-applications-to-ionospheric-problems-by-h-g-booker-john-ashworth-ratcliffe-and-d-h-shinn, accessed on 08 July 2025
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Date: 12th September 1950
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1950.0011
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1949 Reference number: RR/72
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