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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Radially symmetric phase growth controlled by diffusion' by Frederick Charles Frank

Reference number: RR/72/120

Date: 1949

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, after modifications have been made. He finds the paper 'very difficult to understand'. It should be published, despite it not being clearly written. Section two should be re-written.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1950].

Date received not given.

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RR/72/120
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1949
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2 pages
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Radially symmetric phase growth controlled by diffusion' by Frederick Charles Frank, 1949, RR/72/120, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_120/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-radially-symmetric-phase-growth-controlled-by-diffusion-by-frederick-charles-frank, accessed on 29 April 2025

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