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Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'X-Ray crystallography and the chemistry of the steroids. Part I' by John Desmond Bernal, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin and I Fankuchen

Reference number: RR/66/26

Date: April 1940

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is long and useful. 'There is the question of possible assistance to the enemy. All organic chemistry is liable to be cleared [?] as of possible use, but this is pretty far off present usefulness'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 23 April 1940.

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RR/66/26
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April 1940
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William Henry Bragg, Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'X-Ray crystallography and the chemistry of the steroids. Part I' by John Desmond Bernal, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin and I Fankuchen, April 1940, RR/66/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_26/referees-report-by-william-henry-bragg-on-a-paper-x-ray-crystallography-and-the-chemistry-of-the-steroids-part-i-by-john-desmond-bernal-dorothy-mary-crowfoot-hodgkin-and-i-fankuchen, accessed on 23 April 2025

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