| Reference number | RR/33/98 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The quantum deviation of the Zeeman effect' by William Mitchinson Hicks |
| Date | March 1926 |
| Description | Sectional committee: Mathematics
Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The paper has 'no application to the Zeeman effect'. The authors theory about loops of orbits is wrong. Publishing the paper would 'suggest a very defective appreciation of the present state of the atomic theory'.
[Not published].
Endorsed on verso as received 9 March 1926. |
| Extent | 7p |
| Format | Typescript |
| Manuscript |
| Physical description | Standardised form (type D), note on paper and typed report on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | NLB/69/288 |
| RR/33/99 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA2448 | Darwin; Sir; Charles Galton (1887 - 1962) | 1887 - 1962 |
| NA6683 | Hicks; William Mitchinson (1850 - 1934) | 1850 - 1934 |