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Letter from Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The thermochemistry of carbon: valence states, heats of sublimation and energies of linkage' by L H Long and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/69/211

Date: 01 February 1946

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He is returning the paper without filling out the report form, as he doesn;t know enough about the subject to act as a referee. From reading it, it seems suitable for publication.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1945].

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RR/69/211
Earliest possible date
01 February 1946
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Sydney Chapman

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Sydney Chapman, Letter from Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The thermochemistry of carbon: valence states, heats of sublimation and energies of linkage' by L H Long and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 01 February 1946, RR/69/211, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_211/letter-from-sydney-chapman-on-a-paper-the-thermochemistry-of-carbon-valence-states-heats-of-sublimation-and-energies-of-linkage-by-l-h-long-and-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 June 2026

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