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Second referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On field equations of electric charge' by H T Flint

Reference number: RR/66/81

Date: June 1939

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Does not see how the theory can be applied to the ordinary electron. Recommends publication only on account of the mathematical interest of the latter part.

[Not published]

Endorsed on recto as received 7 June 1939.

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RR/66/81
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June 1939
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2 pages
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Second referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On field equations of electric charge' by H T Flint, June 1939, RR/66/81, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_81/second-referees-report-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac-on-a-paper-on-field-equations-of-electric-charge-by-h-t-flint, accessed on 10 December 2024

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