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Letter from Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'On secondary circulation in fluid flow' by William Rede Hawthorne, to [John Courtney] Graddon

Reference number: RR/73/169

Date: 14 August 1950

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Paper reference code: A123

Gates has passed Hawthorne's paper to [Robert Alexander] Frazer and they both agree that it is fit to publish if Hawthorne is 'more expansive on the physical side of his mathematics'.

Written from Ash Vale, Aldershot [England].

[Published in Proceedings A, 1951].

Endorsed on recto as received 16 August 1950.

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RR/73/169
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14 August 1950
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Sidney Barrington Gates

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Sidney Barrington Gates, Letter from Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'On secondary circulation in fluid flow' by William Rede Hawthorne, to [John Courtney] Graddon, 14 August 1950, RR/73/169, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_73_169/letter-from-sidney-barrington-gates-on-a-paper-on-secondary-circulation-in-fluid-flow-by-william-rede-hawthorne-to-john-courtney-graddon, accessed on 13 February 2026

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