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Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the photo-ionization of molecules' by B D Nag Chowdhuri and K Basu

Reference number: RR/66/209

Date: March 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' if the paper is correct. Has read through and not found any mistakes, but these can be easy to miss in such calculations. Suggests the paper be submitted to Ralph Howard Fowler or Douglas Rayner Hartree. Is not sure if the paper could be shortened or not.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 17 March 1939.

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RR/66/209
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March 1939
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Owen Willans Richardson, Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the photo-ionization of molecules' by B D Nag Chowdhuri and K Basu, March 1939, RR/66/209, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_209/referees-report-by-owen-willans-richardson-on-a-paper-on-the-photo-ionization-of-molecules-by-b-d-nag-chowdhuri-and-k-basu, accessed on 13 May 2025

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