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Returns the paper. This paper is an improvement on the original one. However, the question is trivial and the paper is too long. This is just his personal taste and he doesn't want to oppose publication.

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

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/72/28
Earliest possible date
21 April 1950
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Typescript

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Rudolf Ernst Peierls

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Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Letter from Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 21 April 1950, RR/72/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_28/letter-from-rudolf-ernst-peierls-on-a-paper-on-the-stochastic-theory-of-continuous-parametric-systems-and-its-application-to-electron-cascades-by-homi-jehangir-bhabha-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 21 January 2026

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