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Reference numberRR/26/145
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The diffraction of plane electromagnetic waves by a perfectly reflecting sphere' by F Puryer White and Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich
Date[August 1921]
DescriptionSectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', subject to modifications. Refers to work of Watson [?], Joseph Proudman, Henri Poincaré, John William Nicholson and [illegible, Maidmold?]. The current paper, which does not refer to these previous researches, only elaborates on them in the detail.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1922]

Endorsed on verso as received 10 August 1921.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type D)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1922.0014 Vol.100 1922
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6296Nicholson; John William (1881 - 1955)1881 - 1955
NA3504Bromwich; Thomas John I'Anson (1875 - 1929)1875 - 1929
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