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Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'A new basis for cosmology' by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Reference number: RR/61/111

Date: January 1938

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, as it will appeal to a wide audience. It could also be published by the Royal Astronomical Society. There is a mis-statement on one of the equations which should be rectified.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 January 1938.

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RR/61/111
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Edward Arthur Milne, Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'A new basis for cosmology' by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, January 1938, RR/61/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_111/referees-report-by-edward-arthur-milne-on-a-paper-a-new-basis-for-cosmology-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac, accessed on 09 November 2025

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