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RefNoNLB/64/678
AltRefNoNLB/64 p382
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TitleCopy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Horace] Lamb [Chairman of the Mathematics Committee] FRS
Date31 May 1923
DescriptionInforms Horace Lamb of the following subjects. Written to [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor to report on Miss [Nina] Hosalis' 'On seisimic waves in a visco-elastic earth'; to send copy of [Sudhansu Kumar] Banerji's 'The Depth of Earthquakes Foci' to [Gilbert Thomas] Walker who communicated it and on [John William] Nicholson's report [George Aldolphus] Schott's 'The Scattering of X and Y rays by Rings of Electrons - The Effects of Damping of the incident Radiation'; James Hopwood Jeans disagrees with Nicholson favourable report and regrets having Schott's past papers being published based on favourable report by Jeans himself, which he feels he was too kind in; asks Lamb to suggest another referee.
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FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordNLB/64/741
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8246Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934)1849 - 1934
NA7775Walker; Sir; Gilbert Thomas (1868 - 1958)1868 - 1958
NA6602Taylor; Sir; Geoffrey Ingram (1886 - 1975)1886 - 1975
NA6296Nicholson; John William (1881 - 1955)1881 - 1955
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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