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Second 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/63/22

Date: January 1938

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Part I recommended for publication in Proceedings, but he cannot follow the argument in part II.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 19 January 1938.

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RR/63/22
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January 1938
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Second 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, January 1938, RR/63/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_22/second-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 09 February 2026

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