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Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'Inelastic collisions between atoms. I. General theoretical considerations' by David Roberts Bates, Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey and A L Stewart

Reference number: RR/77/106

Date: 13 June 1952

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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A87

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Peierls remarks this paper deals with a problem that L Landau gave an 'elegant' solution to.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Date received not given.

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RR/77/106
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13 June 1952
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Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'Inelastic collisions between atoms. I. General theoretical considerations' by David Roberts Bates, Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey and A L Stewart, 13 June 1952, RR/77/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_106/referees-report-by-rudolf-ernst-peierls-on-a-paper-inelastic-collisions-between-atoms-i-general-theoretical-considerations-by-david-roberts-bates-harrie-stewart-wilson-massey-and-a-l-stewart, accessed on 11 February 2025

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