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Paper reference code: A.114

[Originally enclosed with RR/W/6/63]

States that the paper is not very accessible to the reader. Critiques the paper's argument. Suggests shortening the paper significantly, highlighting areas of repetition. Suggests part of the paper might be more suitable for a mathematics journal, which would allow space for the rest of the paper to be written with clarity. Highlights lack of clarity in references to [Andreas] Speiser and [Eugene] Wigner. Does not recommend publication 'unless some dramatic re-casting of the paper is done'.

[Not published].

[Received 18 November 1938]

Reference number
RR/W/6/64
Earliest possible date
27 July 1938
Physical description
Report on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Typescript

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Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland

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Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland, Copy of report by [Gordon Brims Black McIvor] Sutherland on a paper 'Representation algebra and internuclear vibrations' by A C Menzies and K Weissenberg, 27 July 1938, RR/W/6/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_6_64/copy-of-report-by-gordon-brims-black-mcivor-sutherland-on-a-paper-representation-algebra-and-internuclear-vibrations-by-a-c-menzies-and-k-weissenberg, accessed on 05 March 2026

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