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Referee's report by John Monteath Robertson, on a paper 'The crystal structure of cholesteryl iodide' by C H Carlisle and Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

Reference number: RR/68/447

Date: 1944

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', unless the complex diagrams make the Philosophical Transactions more desirable. The paper contains the first and most complex investigation of its kind so far.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

No received date.

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RR/68/447
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1944
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2 pages
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John Monteath Robertson, Referee's report by John Monteath Robertson, on a paper 'The crystal structure of cholesteryl iodide' by C H Carlisle and Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1944, RR/68/447, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_447/referees-report-by-john-monteath-robertson-on-a-paper-the-crystal-structure-of-cholesteryl-iodide-by-c-h-carlisle-and-dorothy-mary-crowfoot-hodgkin, accessed on 24 March 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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