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Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On superfast electromagnetic waves and the structure of the electron and the protons' by N S Japolsky

Reference number: RR/45/114

Date: August 1932

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. As 'superfast electromagnetic waves cannot exist...the main results of the paper must be wrong'. Notes the mathematical mistake.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 2 August 1932.

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RR/45/114
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August 1932
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On superfast electromagnetic waves and the structure of the electron and the protons' by N S Japolsky, August 1932, RR/45/114, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_45_114/referees-report-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac-on-a-paper-on-superfast-electromagnetic-waves-and-the-structure-of-the-electron-and-the-protons-by-n-s-japolsky, accessed on 21 April 2025

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