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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'On fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation' by Max Born and Klaus Fuchs

Reference number: RR/65/27

Date: July 1938

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is interesting work on a deep subject. It cannot be improved in any way. He is unsure if he agrees with the paper, but this does not matter.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1939].

Endorsed on verso as received 19 July 1938.

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RR/65/27
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July 1938
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2 pages
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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'On fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation' by Max Born and Klaus Fuchs, July 1938, RR/65/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_27/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-on-fluctuations-in-electromagnetic-radiation-by-max-born-and-klaus-fuchs, accessed on 09 February 2026

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