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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'The fundamental equation of wave mechancis and the [metrics] of space' by H T Flint and J W Fisher

Reference number: RR/35/78

Date: May 1927

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The authors 'do not seem to have appreciated' the fundamental difficulty in relating Schrödinger's theory to geometry.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 21 May 1927.

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RR/35/78
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May 1927
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Standardised form (type D) and attached note on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'The fundamental equation of wave mechancis and the [metrics] of space' by H T Flint and J W Fisher, May 1927, RR/35/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_35_78/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-the-fundamental-equation-of-wave-mechancis-and-the-metrics-of-space-by-h-t-flint-and-j-w-fisher, accessed on 08 February 2026

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