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Second referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'Classical theory of radiating electrons' by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Reference number: RR/65/74

Date: 1938

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication, in light of the other referee's favourable report. He is still unable to follow all the author's replies to his criticisms, but the criticisms should not be pressed any further.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 1938.

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RR/65/74
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1938
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2 pages
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Edward Arthur Milne, Second referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'Classical theory of radiating electrons' by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, 1938, RR/65/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_74/second-referees-report-by-edward-arthur-milne-on-a-paper-classical-theory-of-radiating-electrons-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac, accessed on 10 November 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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