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Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'A ring model of the sodium atom' by W G L Sutton

Reference number: RR/36/83

Date: May 1927

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The introduction is sufficient to judge the low value of the paper. The mathematics may be interesting, but of no value for its own sake. Suggests another opinion be sought.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 May 1927.

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RR/36/83
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May 1927
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2 pages
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Ralph Howard Fowler, Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'A ring model of the sodium atom' by W G L Sutton, May 1927, RR/36/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_36_83/referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-a-paper-a-ring-model-of-the-sodium-atom-by-w-g-l-sutton, accessed on 08 November 2025

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