Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'New methods in statistical mechanic' by Meghnad Saha and Ramesh Chandra
Reference number: RR/39/107
Date: April 1929

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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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.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.
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- April 1929
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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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1929 Reference number: RR/39
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