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Reference numberRR/21/99
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The emission of electricity from various substances at high temperatures' by George William Clarkson Kaye and W F Higgins
Date[May 1914]
DescriptionSectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Agrees with John Sealy Edward Townsend [RR/21/100], in that the paper is taken up with too much numerical data, despite the data being vague and indefinite.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 19 May 1914.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type C)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1914.0068 Vol.90 1914
Related records in the catalogueRR/21/100
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7877Strutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh; experimental physicist1875 - 1947
NA612Kaye; George William Clarkson (1880 - 1941)1880 - 1941
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