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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'On the electromagnetic two-body problem' by John Lighton Synge

Reference number: RR/67/416

Date: July 1940

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication. He has little enthusiasm for the paper, as it is the work of a mathematician who has strayed into physics and 'makes certain hypotheses and works out their consequences without any reference to physical activity'. The paper has little value and shouldn't be accepted. Asks for a second opinion on the paper from another referee.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received 31 July 1940.

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RR/67/416
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July 1940
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4 pages
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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'On the electromagnetic two-body problem' by John Lighton Synge, July 1940, RR/67/416, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_416/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-on-the-electromagnetic-two-body-problem-by-john-lighton-synge, accessed on 11 July 2025

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