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Reference numberRR/35/78
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'The fundamental equation of wave mechancis and the [metrics] of space' by H T Flint and J W Fisher
DateMay 1927
DescriptionSectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The authors 'do not seem to have appreciated' the fundamental difficulty in relating Schrödinger's theory to geometry.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 21 May 1927.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type D) and attached note on paper
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Access statusOpen
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CodeNameDates
NA8211Eddington; Sir; Arthur Stanley (1882 - 1944); astrophysicist and theoretical physicist1882 - 1944
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