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Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'On Heisenberg's elementary theory of turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Reference number: RR/72/51

Date: 1949

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. He isn't an expert in the present theory in turbulence, having lost touch with it in the last twenty years. Suggests using Geoffrey Ingram Taylor as a referee.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1949].

Date received not given.

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Harold Jeffreys, Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'On Heisenberg's elementary theory of turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1949, RR/72/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_51/referees-report-by-harold-jeffreys-on-a-paper-on-heisenbergs-elementary-theory-of-turbulence-by-subrahmanyan-chandrasekhar, accessed on 13 January 2025

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