Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Vol. 71.
1997.
P. 977-980
It is shown that the main conclusion of Dragić and Marić [Phys. Lett. A 229 (1997) 130] about the ground state of the hydrogen atom in the Barut-Vigier potential is based on the wrong use of the radial wave function which cannot be normalized. © 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.