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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Relativistic wave equations' by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Reference number: RR/59/51

Date: April 1936

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is more slight than other works by the author. At present it has no physical application, but 'it would be a mistake not to print it'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 2 April 1936.

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RR/59/51
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April 1936
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Galton Darwin

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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Relativistic wave equations' by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, April 1936, RR/59/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_59_51/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-relativistic-wave-equations-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac, accessed on 12 January 2025

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