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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. 'I decline to reply formally about this paper which informally I consider utter nonsense'. Refers to work of Johannes Diderik van der Waals.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 30 April 1929.

Reference number
RR/39/107
Earliest possible date
April 1929
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Ralph Howard Fowler

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Ralph Howard Fowler, Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'New methods in statistical mechanic' by Meghnad Saha and Ramesh Chandra, April 1929, RR/39/107, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_39_107/referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-a-paper-new-methods-in-statistical-mechanic-by-meghnad-saha-and-ramesh-chandra, accessed on 09 February 2025

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