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Reference numberRR/70/224
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Rudolph Ernst Peirels, on a paper 'The excitation of nuclei by electrons' by Ian Naismith Sneddon and B F Touschek
Date1947
DescriptionSectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Disagrees with the author's use of the liquid drop model as he had hoped that this model was 'by now dead and forgotten'. The is some repetition of explanations and the last sentence is obscure. Lists modifications.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Date received not given.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Typescript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type E) and note on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1948.0050
Related records in the catalogueRR/70/223
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA3216Peierls; Sir; Rudolf Ernst (1907 - 1995)1907 - 1995
NA4952Sneddon; Ian Naismith (1919 - 2000)1919 - 2000
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