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Reference numberRR/35/60
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'The continuous absorption of light in potassium vapour' by Robert Williams Ditchburn
DateSeptember 1927
DescriptionSectional committee: Physics

The first part of the paper should be reduced. Conditions for the experiments should be more clearly stated. The paper is 'admittedly rough and has nothing very novel about it'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 September 1927.
Extent2p
FormatTypescript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type D)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1928.0012
Related records in the catalogueRR/35/61
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7033Dobson; Gordon Miller Bourne (1889 - 1976)1889 - 1976
NA5089Ditchburn; Robert William (1903 - 1987)1903 - 1987
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