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Letter from Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations of bodies of revolution. Motion of a sphere' by D Meksyn to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/70/182

Date: 15 January 1948

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If the Society wants him to be a referee he will but he has been away from the University quite a lot recently and he has lots to do. It might a a long time before he can think about the paper.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1948].

Endorsed on recto as received 17 January 1948.

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RR/70/182
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15 January 1948
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Sydney Goldstein, Letter from Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations of bodies of revolution. Motion of a sphere' by D Meksyn to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 15 January 1948, RR/70/182, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_70_182/letter-from-sydney-goldstein-on-a-paper-the-laminar-boundary-layer-equations-of-bodies-of-revolution-motion-of-a-sphere-by-d-meksyn-to-david-christie-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 20 January 2025

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