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Second referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the foundations of the electron wave equation' by Samuel Roslington Milner

Reference number: RR/48/133

Date: December 1932

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The extensive modifications have 'rather vaguely' improved the paper. 'But th author has made an awful mess of the job!'

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1933]

Endorsed on verso as received 3 December 1932.

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RR/48/133
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December 1932
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2 pages
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Ralph Howard Fowler, Second referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the foundations of the electron wave equation' by Samuel Roslington Milner, December 1932, RR/48/133, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_48_133/second-referees-report-by-ralph-howard-fowler-on-a-paper-on-the-foundations-of-the-electron-wave-equation-by-samuel-roslington-milner, accessed on 14 June 2025

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