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Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the statistical method in nuclear theory' by K Fuchs

Reference number: RR/66/91

Date: November 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds some of the mathematical expressions complicated, suggests ways of simplifying them and making them easier to print.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 30 November 1939.

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RR/66/91
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November 1939
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Standardised form (type E)
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2 pages
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the statistical method in nuclear theory' by K Fuchs, November 1939, RR/66/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_91/referees-report-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac-on-a-paper-on-the-statistical-method-in-nuclear-theory-by-k-fuchs, accessed on 17 January 2025

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