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Letter from Charles Galton Darwin, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'On relativistic wave equations for particles of arbitrary spin in an electromagnetic field' by M Fierz and Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

Reference number: RR/66/79

Date: 16 July 1939

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

In view of the opinions of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, is willing to withdraw his criticisms of the paper. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac is a good critic of the work itself. 'Moreover Pryce [Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce?] is a shrewd young man and would not go to the labour of translation if it were not worth it. In spite of this withdrawal I shall continue (if asked) to look rather antagonistically at foreigner's papers'.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 17 July 1939.

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RR/66/79
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16 July 1939
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Charles Galton Darwin, Letter from Charles Galton Darwin, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'On relativistic wave equations for particles of arbitrary spin in an electromagnetic field' by M Fierz and Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, 16 July 1939, RR/66/79, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_79/letter-from-charles-galton-darwin-to-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton-regarding-a-paper-on-relativistic-wave-equations-for-particles-of-arbitrary-spin-in-an-electromagnetic-field-by-m-fierz-and-wolfgang-ernst-pauli, accessed on 20 April 2026

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