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RefNoMS/603/10/102
Previous numbers1874
LevelItem
TitleLetter from F J M [Frederick John Marrian] Stratton, Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge University, to Sir Joseph [Larmor]
CreatorStratton; Frederick John Marrian (1881-1960); British astrophysicist
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date24 July 1939
DescriptionStratton has Larmor's letter, with the interesting point, which is not easy to solve experimentally. If he understands it, a monochrmoatic source of light diffacted by a grating will give a series of iamges of different orders. The second order image may be of the simple grating with an overlay of the first order image. The only hope of disentangling them would be if the two image components were of slightly different wavelengths, so they might be separated by a prism. The most likely people ot be able to do this woudl be T.R. [Thomas ralph] Merton or J.A.[John SAnthony] Carroll and he wonders if Larmor would like the point to be followed up.
Extent2p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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