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Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Rotation-vibration bands of methyl fluoride' by Jenny Pickworth and Harold Warris Thompson

Reference number: RR/79/157

Date: 28 July 1953

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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A144

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Curtis writes: 'I do not quite understand the statement near the foot of p.6, viz ".... the results were fitted to this equation by least squares, and also graphically, with the results.....". Were the results obtained by the two methods identical, or if not how were they derived?'

[Published in Proceedings A, 1954].

Endorsed on recto as received 29 July 1953.

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William Edward Curtis, Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Rotation-vibration bands of methyl fluoride' by Jenny Pickworth and Harold Warris Thompson, 28 July 1953, RR/79/157, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_79_157/referees-report-by-william-edward-curtis-on-a-paper-rotation-vibration-bands-of-methyl-fluoride-by-jenny-pickworth-and-harold-warris-thompson, accessed on 18 March 2025

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