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Letter from David Brunt, on a paper 'The escape of molecules from a plane surface into a still atmosphere' by K J Brookfield, H D N Fitzpatrick, J F Jackson, J B Matthews and E A Moelwyn-Hughes to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/69/48

Date: 21 November 1946

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He accepts the paper in it's new form. A small modification could be made.

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

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RR/69/48
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21 November 1946
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Letter on paper
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David Brunt, Letter from David Brunt, on a paper 'The escape of molecules from a plane surface into a still atmosphere' by K J Brookfield, H D N Fitzpatrick, J F Jackson, J B Matthews and E A Moelwyn-Hughes to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 21 November 1946, RR/69/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_48/letter-from-david-brunt-on-a-paper-the-escape-of-molecules-from-a-plane-surface-into-a-still-atmosphere-by-k-j-brookfield-h-d-n-fitzpatrick-j-f-jackson-j-b-matthews-and-e-a-moelwyn-hughes-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 22 April 2026

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