Reference number | RR/8/123 |
Level | Item |
Title | Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On stresses in rarified gases arising from inequalities of temperature' by James Clerk Maxwell |
Date | 15 June 1878 |
Description | Recommended 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] |
Extent | 18p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Letter on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1879.0067 Vol.170 1879 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |
NA8259 | Maxwell; James Clerk (1831 - 1879); physicist | 1831 - 1879 |