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Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'An attempt to measure interferometrically the widths of chromospheric lines at the total solar eclipse of 1952 February 25' by H A Bruck and Derek Ainslie Jackson

Reference number: RR/77/175

Date: 02 September 1952

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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A152

Not recommended for publication. Plaskett remarks this paper 'gives an account of another unsuccessful attempt to find the profiles of chromospheric lines by interferometry', and argues the paper is of interest to few readers therefore not suitable for publication by the Royal Society.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Date received not given.

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RR/77/175
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02 September 1952
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Harry Hemley Plaskett, Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'An attempt to measure interferometrically the widths of chromospheric lines at the total solar eclipse of 1952 February 25' by H A Bruck and Derek Ainslie Jackson, 02 September 1952, RR/77/175, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_175/referees-report-by-harry-hemley-plaskett-on-a-paper-an-attempt-to-measure-interferometrically-the-widths-of-chromospheric-lines-at-the-total-solar-eclipse-of-1952-february-25-by-h-a-bruck-and-derek-ainslie-jackson, accessed on 23 March 2025

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