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Memoranda from Robert William Frederick Harrison, and reply from George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The distribution of molecular energy' by James Hopwood Jeans

Reference number: RR/15/67

Date: 27 July 1900

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Sectional committee: [Physics and chemistry]

Encloses the reports of all three referees on Jeans' paper [not attached] and shall be glad to know whether any and if so what, steps should be taken.
Foster replies on the 28th July that the divergent opinions of referees one and two and the qualified recommendations of the thirds referee, mean this paper should go back to the Physics and Chemistry Committee.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1901].

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RR/15/67
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George Carey Foster, Memoranda from Robert William Frederick Harrison, and reply from George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The distribution of molecular energy' by James Hopwood Jeans, 27 July 1900, RR/15/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_67/memoranda-from-robert-william-frederick-harrison-and-reply-from-george-carey-foster-on-a-paper-the-distribution-of-molecular-energy-by-james-hopwood-jeans, accessed on 13 September 2024

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