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Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on two papers 'Some remarks on the statistics of binary systems' by Gregory H Wannier, and 'On the statistics of binary systems' by Klaus Fuchs

Reference number: RR/68/263

Date: 1942

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The remarks of the authors are not purely polemical. Agrees that a joint paper would have been preferable, but war conditions render that difficult.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

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

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RR/68/263
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1942
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Ralph Howard Fowler, Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on two papers 'Some remarks on the statistics of binary systems' by Gregory H Wannier, and 'On the statistics of binary systems' by Klaus Fuchs, 1942, RR/68/263, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_263/referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-two-papers-some-remarks-on-the-statistics-of-binary-systems-by-gregory-h-wannier-and-on-the-statistics-of-binary-systems-by-klaus-fuchs, accessed on 22 January 2025

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