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The revised version has been suitably condensed. He is still not happy with one of the passages.

Endorsed on recto as received 20 January 1949.

Reference number
RR/71/294
Earliest possible date
19 January 1949
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Typescript

Creator name

Rudolf Ernst Peierls

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Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Letter from Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on an unknown paper by an unknown author to D C Martin Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 19 January 1949, RR/71/294, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_294/letter-from-rudolf-ernst-peierls-on-an-unknown-paper-by-an-unknown-author-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 16 February 2025

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