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Referee's report by Percival Albert Sheppard, on a paper 'Contributions to the theory of heat transfer through a laminar boundary layer' by Michael James Lighthill

Reference number: RR/73/43

Date: 1950

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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A28

Recommended for publication in Proceedings: 'I have not checked the author's mathematics in any detail. But it hangs together well.'

[Published in Proceedings A, 1950].

Date received not given.

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RR/73/43
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1950
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Percival Albert Sheppard, Referee's report by Percival Albert Sheppard, on a paper 'Contributions to the theory of heat transfer through a laminar boundary layer' by Michael James Lighthill, 1950, RR/73/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_73_43/referees-report-by-percival-albert-sheppard-on-a-paper-contributions-to-the-theory-of-heat-transfer-through-a-laminar-boundary-layer-by-michael-james-lighthill, accessed on 11 February 2026

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