Record

Reference numberNLB/64/732
Alternative reference numberNLB/64 p413
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society;[Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh
Date11 June 1923
DescriptionInforms Robert John Strutt on 3 matters; [Owen Willans] Richardson approves of the publication in proceedings of 'Test of a Theory of Radiation' by [George Paget] Thomson [and Joseph John Thomson] and asks if Strutt agrees; asks him if he would like to choose the first referee for L.C. Jackson's 'Investigations on the paramagnetism of crystals at low temperatures', communicated by Kamerlingh Onnes before the meeting of the Physics meeting or if the council should choose both; asks Strutt to look through 'The Molecular Scatterings of Light in Carbon-dioxide at High Pressures' by [Chandrasekhara Venkata] Raman, [K. R.] Ramanathan, communicated by [Gilbert Thomas] Walker, and to report an opinion of it to the committee.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7877Strutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh; experimental physicist1875 - 1947
NA452Onnes; Heike Kamerlingh (1853 - 1926)1853 - 1926
NA7775Walker; Sir; Gilbert Thomas (1868 - 1958); applied mathematician and meteorologist1868 - 1958
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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