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Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'A thermodynamical theory of the tensile strength of isotropic bodies' by R Fürth

Reference number: RR/67/181

Date: May 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in it's present form. He is hesitant to suggest rejection of the paper, as it contains an ingenious idea. However, the comparison with experiment that the author gives is 'quite worthless'. There are some aspects of the experiment that the author has neglected to add in the paper.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1941].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 May 1940.

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RR/67/181
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May 1940
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Standardised form (type E) and note on paper
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5 pages
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Nevill Francis Mott, Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'A thermodynamical theory of the tensile strength of isotropic bodies' by R Fürth, May 1940, RR/67/181, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_181/referees-report-by-nevill-francis-mott-on-a-paper-a-thermodynamical-theory-of-the-tensile-strength-of-isotropic-bodies-by-r-fürth, accessed on 07 September 2026

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