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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

Reference number: RR/72/30

Date: 14 October 1949

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The best procedure is for him to write to Dirac directly and leave the decision in his hands. The method used is already well-known and is obvious to anbody who 'considers the problem for five minutes'

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

Endorsed on recto as received 15 October 1949.

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RR/72/30
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14 October 1949
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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, 14 October 1949, RR/72/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_30/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 2025

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