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Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of simple and composite monatomic gases : viscosity, thermal conduction, and diffusion' by S Chapman

Reference number: RR/23/15

Date: May 1916

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as the paper is 'valuable and important'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1916].

Endorsed on verso as received 30 May 1916.

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RR/23/15
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May 1916
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James Hopwood Jeans, Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of simple and composite monatomic gases : viscosity, thermal conduction, and diffusion' by S Chapman, May 1916, RR/23/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_15/referees-report-by-james-hopwood-jeans-on-a-paper-the-kinetic-theory-of-simple-and-composite-monatomic-gases-viscosity-thermal-conduction-and-diffusion-by-s-chapman, accessed on 07 October 2024

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