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British Royal Society Academic Papers Online

11/30/09

Permalink 03:04:06 pm by misblog, Categories: Education

In Britain the initials "FRS" after your name rendered all other initials unnecessary and redundant—you were a "fellow" in the British Royal Society (BRS), a "first-rate man" (women were discriminated against by these all-male intellectuals).

Now you can access and download the BRS academic papers, dating back to the days of Sir Isaac Newton, FRS.

Want to download and read Dirac's1 1928 The Quantum Theory of the Electron, describing his paradigm shifting insight that a Hamiltonian could be used in advancing the then fast developing field of Quantum Mechanics—it's there1.

Web: Reuters, "Trailblazing" website reveals 350 years of science

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1. Paul Dirac was a student at St. John's College working under the supervision R.H. Fowler who was married to the daughter of Ernest Rutherford, then president of the British Royal Society.

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