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Reference numberRR/28/114
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'A correspondence between the spectrum of the potassium ion and the spectrum of argon' by H Grayson Smith
Date19 February 1923
DescriptionSectional Committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The comparison is inadequate and the results trivial. Refers to more comprehensive work by Pieter Zeeman and Dik [?], and John Cunningham McLennan. 'The paper has nothing at all to recommend it for favourable consideration'.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 February 1923.
Extent8p
FormatTypescript
Manuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6169Fowler; Alfred (1868 - 1940); astrophysicist1868 - 1940
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