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Letter from Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of a gas constituted of spherically symmetrical molecules' by S Chapman

Reference number: RR/18/118

Date: 12 November 1911

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Letter stating that despite the negative referee reports, the paper should be published. He is 'certain that it ought not to be suppressed.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1912].

Endorsed on verso as received 14 Novemebr 1911.

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RR/18/118
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12 November 1911
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1 page
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Joseph Larmor

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Joseph Larmor, Letter from Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of a gas constituted of spherically symmetrical molecules' by S Chapman, 12 November 1911, RR/18/118, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_18_118/letter-from-joseph-larmor-on-a-paper-the-kinetic-theory-of-a-gas-constituted-of-spherically-symmetrical-molecules-by-s-chapman, accessed on 17 January 2025

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