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Letter from Edward Charles Dodds, on a paper 'The growth-inhibitory and carcinogenic properties of 4-aminostilbene and derivatives' by Alexander Haddow, R J C Harris, George Armand Robert Kon and E M F Roe to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/70/129

Date: 18 February 1948

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Cook's report has been read to him over the phone. He hasn't convinced by the paper at first but he is happy to accept Cook's views.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1948].

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RR/70/129
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18 February 1948
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Edward Charles Dodds

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Edward Charles Dodds, Letter from Edward Charles Dodds, on a paper 'The growth-inhibitory and carcinogenic properties of 4-aminostilbene and derivatives' by Alexander Haddow, R J C Harris, George Armand Robert Kon and E M F Roe to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 18 February 1948, RR/70/129, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_70_129/letter-from-edward-charles-dodds-on-a-paper-the-growth-inhibitory-and-carcinogenic-properties-of-4-aminostilbene-and-derivatives-by-alexander-haddow-r-j-c-harris-george-armand-robert-kon-and-e-m-f-roe-to-the-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 10 November 2025

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