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Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'The equations of electromagnetism. I - Fundamental identifications. II - Field theory' by Edward Arthur Milne

Reference number: RR/63/21

Date: November 1937

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, after dramatic shortening. The author should decide if his theory is in agreement with Maxwell theory. The author should write a separate paper giving all the equations of his present work, which would be more useful than this one.

[Both papers published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 3 November 1937.

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RR/63/21
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November 1937
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'The equations of electromagnetism. I - Fundamental identifications. II - Field theory' by Edward Arthur Milne, November 1937, RR/63/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_21/referees-report-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac-on-a-paper-the-equations-of-electromagnetism-i-fundamental-identifications-ii-field-theory-by-edward-arthur-milne, accessed on 12 April 2026

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