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Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'Theory of electric charge' by Arthur Stanley Eddington

Reference number: RR/47/31

Date: June 1932

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. He 'cannot understand the paper at all' but it seems very important.The author should be asked if whether this paper is the final work on this theory or whether further improvements will be made. If it is the final work, it should be published and if not, the Society should wait for the final version.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 June 1932.

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RR/47/31
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June 1932
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'Theory of electric charge' by Arthur Stanley Eddington, June 1932, RR/47/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_31/referees-report-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac-on-a-paper-theory-of-electric-charge-by-arthur-stanley-eddington, accessed on 14 May 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

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