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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Quantum mechanics and a preliminary investigation of the hydrogen atom' by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Reference number: RR/33/53

Date: February 1926

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It is a 'brilliant piece of work' and should be published quickly, 'as it is in a field where others are working in competition'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1926].

Endorsed on verso as received 5 February 1926.

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RR/33/53
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February 1926
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Charles Galton Darwin

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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Quantum mechanics and a preliminary investigation of the hydrogen atom' by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, February 1926, RR/33/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_33_53/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-quantum-mechanics-and-a-preliminary-investigation-of-the-hydrogen-atom-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac, accessed on 21 April 2025

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