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Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The electronic band structure of PbS' by D G Bell, D M Hum, L Pincherle, Dennis William Sciama and P M Woodward

Reference number: RR/77/195

Date: 11 October 1952

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Paper reference code: A168

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Hartree's comments on his concerns regarding the sue of groups of initials as abbreviations, and the arguments regarding wave functions. Attached is a printed letter from D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, asking Hartree,

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Date received not given.

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RR/77/195
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11 October 1952
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3 pages
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Douglas Rayner Hartree, Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The electronic band structure of PbS' by D G Bell, D M Hum, L Pincherle, Dennis William Sciama and P M Woodward, 11 October 1952, RR/77/195, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_195/referees-report-by-douglas-rayner-hartree-on-a-paper-the-electronic-band-structure-of-pbs-by-d-g-bell-d-m-hum-l-pincherle-dennis-william-sciama-and-p-m-woodward, accessed on 10 February 2026

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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