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Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The quantal calculation of the photo-ionization cross-section of atomic potassium' by David Robert Bates

Reference number: RR/69/16

Date: March 1946

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Some modifications are required to wording and defining formulas.

Letter states that he cannot remember his comments on the paper, but most of them seem to have been met.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1947].

Letter endorsed on recto as received 28 March 1946.

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RR/69/16
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March 1946
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Standardised form (type E) and letter on paper
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Douglas Rayner Hartree, Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The quantal calculation of the photo-ionization cross-section of atomic potassium' by David Robert Bates, March 1946, RR/69/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_16/referees-report-by-douglas-rayner-hartree-on-a-paper-the-quantal-calculation-of-the-photo-ionization-cross-section-of-atomic-potassium-by-david-robert-bates, accessed on 14 December 2025

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