Second referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The cascade theory of electronic showers' by Lev Davydovitch Landau and G Rumer
Reference number: RR/64/92
Date: February 1938

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Sectional Committee: Physics
Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Still cannot follow the reasoning. Outlines criticism of the mathematics and the reasoning. Depending on the assumptions made, the results are of limited applicability. Refers to work of Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Walter Heinrich Heitler. In his opinion, other work by the author, Lev Davydovitch Landau, is 'brilliant, nearly always right, and nearly always obscure and often incomprehensible. I have no doubt that I have missed some point in the argument; but I think this is the authors' fault'.
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
Endorsed on verso as received 8 February 1938.
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Nevill Francis Mott, Second referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The cascade theory of electronic showers' by Lev Davydovitch Landau and G Rumer, February 1938, RR/64/92, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_64_92/second-referees-report-by-nevill-francis-mott-on-a-paper-the-cascade-theory-of-electronic-showers-by-lev-davydovitch-landau-and-g-rumer, accessed on 12 February 2025
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Referees' reports: volume 64, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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