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THE new theory of the electromagnetic field which I have proposed1 seemed to allow an interpretation of the spin of the electron as a real electromagnetic angular momentum. Prof. W. Pauli was so kind to direct my attention to the fact that the quantisation of the field equations determines the total electromagnetic angular momentum as an integral multiple of h ; hence this interpretation is impossible.
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Pryce's paper has not appeared yet. As we are now widely separated, he in America, I in India, I publish this confirmation of his idea without asking his consent.
M. Born and E. Schrödinger, NATURE, 135, 342; 1935.
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BORN, M. Quantised Field Theory and the Mass of the Proton. Nature 136, 952–953 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136952a0
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