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Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the principle of least action in wave mechanics' by John Macnagheten Whittaker

Reference number: RR/37/152

Date: September 1928

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 28 September 1928.

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RR/37/152
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September 1928
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John Macnaghten Whittaker, Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the principle of least action in wave mechanics' by John Macnagheten Whittaker, September 1928, RR/37/152, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_37_152/referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-a-paper-on-the-principle-of-least-action-in-wave-mechanics-by-john-macnagheten-whittaker, accessed on 13 January 2026

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