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Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'Theory of spontaneous transitions' by P M Davidson

Reference number: RR/70/85

Date: 1947

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

The paper puts forward na interesting idea but doesn't go far enough to be able to see if the idea is capable of consistent development. The author should give the general rule governing the artificial destruction of matter. It might be more suitably published in Nature.

[Not published].

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1947
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'Theory of spontaneous transitions' by P M Davidson, 1947, RR/70/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_70_85/referees-report-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac-on-a-paper-theory-of-spontaneous-transitions-by-p-m-davidson, accessed on 11 February 2026

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