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Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'Calculated wave functions and energy values for X-ray terms of potassium' by W A Thatcher

Reference number: RR/62/50

Date: October 1936

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests shortening page 13. Suggests improving the use of English, which 'is written below the average standard on scientific papers, and in some places so bad as to be obscure.' Suggests clarifying the use of mathematical notation.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 28 October 1936.

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October 1936
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Nevill Francis Mott, Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'Calculated wave functions and energy values for X-ray terms of potassium' by W A Thatcher, October 1936, RR/62/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_62_50/referees-report-by-nevill-francis-mott-on-a-paper-calculated-wave-functions-and-energy-values-for-x-ray-terms-of-potassium-by-w-a-thatcher, accessed on 21 April 2026

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