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IN the last section of a recent paper1, Dirac discusses his formulæ with the following words: “An important feature of the new theory is that it involves only the ratio e/m, not e and m separately. This is what one should expect in a purely classical theory. The existence of e should be looked upon as a quantum effect, and it should appear in a theory only after quantization, and not be a property of classical electrons”.
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Dirac, P. A. M., Proc. Roy. Soc., 209, 19 (1951).
Born, M., “Atomic Physics”, 324 (5th edit.), Appendix VIII.
Born, M., Rev. Mod. Phys., 21, 463 (1949).
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BORN, M. Dirac's New Theory of the Electron. Nature 169, 1105 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/1691105a0
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