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Letter from Max Born, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'Thermodynamics of a relativistic Fermi-Dirac gas' by D S Kothari and B N Singh

Reference number: RR/68/99

Date: 18 August 1941

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Refers to work of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Finds the relation of the paper to the book of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar difficult to understand. Suggests adding a footnote of relevant formulae. Suggests an amendment to the existing footnote.

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

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RR/68/99
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18 August 1941
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Max Born, Letter from Max Born, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'Thermodynamics of a relativistic Fermi-Dirac gas' by D S Kothari and B N Singh, 18 August 1941, RR/68/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_99/letter-from-max-born-to-john-david-griffith-davies-regarding-a-paper-thermodynamics-of-a-relativistic-fermi-dirac-gas-by-d-s-kothari-and-b-n-singh, accessed on 06 December 2025

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