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Reference numberNLB/66/610
Alternative reference numberNLB/66 p336
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS
Date5 June 1924
DescriptionInforms Robert John Strutt of 3 matters. 1: Asks for a referee suggestion, or to pass straight for publishing the paper 'The influence of atomic arrangement on refractive index.' by [William Lawrance] Bragg. Jeans suggests the latter as under former policy. 2: Asks for a referee suggestion for the paper 'The thermal expansion of crystals of metallic bismuth' by J. Keith Roberts, communicated by Petaval. 3: States that Merton has now written in, officially withdrawing his criticism of the paper 'The ultraviolet spark spectra of some of the elements', which will now be published.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Related materialdoi.org/10.1098/rspa.1924.0074
Related records in the catalogueRR/31/47
NLB/66/554
NLB/66/553
NLB/66/549
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8141Bragg; Sir; William Lawrence (1890 - 1971)1890 - 1971
NA8267Petavel; Sir; Joseph Ernest (1873 - 1936)1873 - 1936
NA7877Strutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh1875 - 1947
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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