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Referee's report by Thomas Martin Lowry and John Edward Lennard-Jones, on two papers 'Optical rotatory power. I—A theoretical calculation for a molecule containing only isotropic refractive centres' and 'Optical rotatory power. II.—The calculation of the rotatory power of a molecule containing four refractive radicals at the corners of an irregular tetrahedron' by Samuel Francis Boys

Reference number: RR/49/32

Date: December 1933

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', if divided into two parts. Refers to work of de Malleman and Paul Karl Ludwig Drude.

[Both papers published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 27 December 1933.

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RR/49/32
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December 1933
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Thomas Martin Lowry

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Thomas Martin Lowry, John Edward Lennard-Jones, Referee's report by Thomas Martin Lowry and John Edward Lennard-Jones, on two papers 'Optical rotatory power. I—A theoretical calculation for a molecule containing only isotropic refractive centres' and 'Optical rotatory power. II.—The calculation of the rotatory power of a molecule containing four refractive radicals at the corners of an irregular tetrahedron' by Samuel Francis Boys, December 1933, RR/49/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_49_32/referees-report-by-thomas-martin-lowry-and-john-edward-lennard-jones-on-two-papers-optical-rotatory-power-ia-theoretical-calculation-for-a-molecule-containing-only-isotropic-refractive-centres-and-optical-rotatory-power-iithe-calculation-of-the-rotatory-power-of-a-molecule-containing-four-refractive-radicals-at-the-corners-of-an-irregular-tetrahedron-by-samuel-francis-boys, accessed on 06 February 2025

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