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Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, on a paper 'The cascade theory of electronic showers' by Lev Davydovitch Landau and G Rumer

Reference number: RR/64/93

Date: 02 December 1937

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Cannot judge the mathematics, but does not doubt it is right, as Lev Davydovitch Landau is a capable mathematical physicist.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 6 December 1937.

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RR/64/93
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02 December 1937
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Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, on a paper 'The cascade theory of electronic showers' by Lev Davydovitch Landau and G Rumer, 02 December 1937, RR/64/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_64_93/referees-report-by-patrick-maynard-stuart-blackett-baron-blackett-of-chelsea-on-a-paper-the-cascade-theory-of-electronic-showers-by-lev-davydovitch-landau-and-g-rumer, accessed on 16 January 2025

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