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Reference numberRR/11/250
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'The potential of an anchor ring' by Frank Watson Dyson
Date1893
DescriptionRecommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Despite the well-known problems, the author has taken great care to be accurate.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1893].
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionReport on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rsta.1893.0002
Related records in the catalogueRR/11/248
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6649Niven; Sir; William Davidson (1842 - 1917); mathematician and electrical engineer1842 - 1917
NA8209Dyson; Sir; Frank Watson (1868 - 1939); astronomer1868 - 1939
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