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Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'A contribution to the thermodynamical theory of explosions.—Parts | and II' by J B Henderson and H R Hassé

Reference number: RR/26/60

Date: June 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', but only if 'much abridged'. Considers the paper more suited to a gunnery manual. Suggests the author check their confusing and conflicting use of units.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1922]

Endorsed on verso as received 28 June 1921.

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RR/26/60
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June 1921
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Frederick Alexander Lindemann

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Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'A contribution to the thermodynamical theory of explosions.—Parts | and II' by J B Henderson and H R Hassé, June 1921, RR/26/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_60/referees-report-by-frederick-alexander-lindemann-viscount-cherwell-on-a-paper-a-contribution-to-the-thermodynamical-theory-of-explosionsparts-and-ii-by-j-b-henderson-and-h-r-hassé, accessed on 14 December 2024

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