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Letter from Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'A photographic investigation into the disintegration of liquid sheets' by N Dombrowski and R P Fraser, to D C Martin

Reference number: RR/79/249

Date: 07 January 1954

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Paper reference code: A.225

Believes that this is important work that ought to be published by the Royal Society, but is 'doubtful whether the authors have written it up in the most intelligible way'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1954].

Date received not given.

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RR/79/249
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07 January 1954
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Sidney Barrington Gates, Letter from Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'A photographic investigation into the disintegration of liquid sheets' by N Dombrowski and R P Fraser, to D C Martin, 07 January 1954, RR/79/249, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_79_249/letter-from-sidney-barrington-gates-on-a-paper-a-photographic-investigation-into-the-disintegration-of-liquid-sheets-by-n-dombrowski-and-r-p-fraser-to-d-c-martin, accessed on 19 January 2026

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