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Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The computation of Fermi-Dirac functions' by J McDougall and Edmund Clifton Stoner

Reference number: RR/64/110

Date: April 1937

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The tables should be published. Suggests submitting the paper to Douglas Rayner Hartree, who is more familiar with the techniques used. Suggests replacing the discussion of the apparatus with a statement on the integrals to be computed. Refers to Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution of James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 April 1937.

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RR/64/110
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Nevill Francis Mott, Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The computation of Fermi-Dirac functions' by J McDougall and Edmund Clifton Stoner, April 1937, RR/64/110, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_64_110/referees-report-by-nevill-francis-mott-on-a-paper-the-computation-of-fermi-dirac-functions-by-j-mcdougall-and-edmund-clifton-stoner, accessed on 20 January 2025

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