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Reference numberRR/8/123
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On stresses in rarified gases arising from inequalities of temperature' by James Clerk Maxwell
Date15 June 1878
DescriptionRecommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Has communicated directly with the author on a few notes and remarks on the paper. Suggests adding clarifying statements to the experimental method. Refers to work of Joseph Fourier. Isaac Newton, Peter Guthrie Tait, James Dewar and George Gabriel Stokes. Suggests the author make further investigatios.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1879]
Extent18p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1879.0067 Vol.170 1879
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist1824 - 1907
NA8259Maxwell; James Clerk (1831 - 1879); physicist1831 - 1879
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