1985b

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in American Journal of Physics, v. 53, p. 616 (1985).

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Commentary: This was a Letter to the Editor, urging physicists to pay attention to the need to revive J. J. Thomson’s model of the electron, pointing to the author’s Physics Today
reference [1984f] and stressing that Dirac has recognized that there were contradictions of physical law in our theories of the electron.