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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On Dirac’s theory of quantum electrodynamics: the interaction of an electron and a radiation field' by C Jayaratnam Eliezer to Joseph Proudman

Reference number: RR/69/94

Date: 03 July 1945

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The paper has been communicated by Dirac, so he wonders if another referee is required. Asks if he is willing to pass the paper for publication is reports are favourable.

Proudman replies that he is willing to pass the paper without further reference.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

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RR/69/94
Earliest possible date
03 July 1945
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Memorandum on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript
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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On Dirac’s theory of quantum electrodynamics: the interaction of an electron and a radiation field' by C Jayaratnam Eliezer to Joseph Proudman, 03 July 1945, RR/69/94, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_94/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-on-diracs-theory-of-quantum-electrodynamics-the-interaction-of-an-electron-and-a-radiation-field-by-c-jayaratnam-eliezer-to-joseph-proudman, accessed on 10 March 2026

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