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Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The basic reactions in the upper atmosphere II. The theory of recombination in the ionized layers' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey

Reference number: RR/70/20

Date: 14 March 1947

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is an excellent paper.

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

Date received not given.

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RR/70/20
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14 March 1947
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Sydney Chapman, Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The basic reactions in the upper atmosphere II. The theory of recombination in the ionized layers' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, 14 March 1947, RR/70/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_70_20/referees-report-by-sydney-chapman-on-a-paper-the-basic-reactions-in-the-upper-atmosphere-ii-the-theory-of-recombination-in-the-ionized-layers-by-david-robert-bates-and-harrie-stewart-wilson-massey, accessed on 10 February 2026

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