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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Paper reference code: A203

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Penney suggests a letter might be sent to Sir John Lennard-Jones, that the Royal Society has been pleased to accept the present series of papers from Boy, however they have been expensive to print.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/77/240
Earliest possible date
26 November 1952
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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William George Penney

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William George Penney, Referee's report by William George Penney, on a paper 'Electronic wave functions. IX. Calculations for the three lowest states of the beryllium atom' by Samuel Francis Boys, 26 November 1952, RR/77/240, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_240/referees-report-by-william-george-penney-on-a-paper-electronic-wave-functions-ix-calculations-for-the-three-lowest-states-of-the-beryllium-atom-by-samuel-francis-boys, accessed on 15 March 2026

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