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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Neutrons, degeneracy and white dwarfs' by D S Kothari

Reference number: RR/64/89

Date: June 1937

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The investigation is very worthwhile. 'I could make various criticisms; but I think this is a case where the author should be given freedom to present his idea in his own way'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 29 June 1937.

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June 1937
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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Neutrons, degeneracy and white dwarfs' by D S Kothari, June 1937, RR/64/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_64_89/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-neutrons-degeneracy-and-white-dwarfs-by-d-s-kothari, accessed on 18 March 2025

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