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Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The basic reactions in the upper atmosphere. I' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey

Reference number: RR/69/17

Date: 17 December 1945

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is an important paper which deals with a difficult subject.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

Endorsed on recto as received 18 December 1945.

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RR/69/17
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17 December 1945
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Sydney Chapman, Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The basic reactions in the upper atmosphere. I' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, 17 December 1945, RR/69/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_17/referees-report-by-sydney-chapman-on-a-paper-the-basic-reactions-in-the-upper-atmosphere-i-by-david-robert-bates-and-harrie-stewart-wilson-massey, accessed on 17 December 2025

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