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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A117

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Chapman writes: 'The paper makes an important contribution to geomagnetic science, of a kind extremely difficult to achieve'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1951].

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/73/158
Earliest possible date
07 June 1951
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Sydney Chapman

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Sydney Chapman, Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Measurements of the variation with depth of the main geomagnetic field' by A C Benson, D H Griffiths, A F Moore and Stanley Keith Runcorn, 07 June 1951, RR/73/158, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_73_158/referees-report-by-sydney-chapman-on-a-paper-measurements-of-the-variation-with-depth-of-the-main-geomagnetic-field-by-a-c-benson-d-h-griffiths-a-f-moore-and-stanley-keith-runcorn, accessed on 08 June 2026

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