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Letter from Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'The inactivation of an enzyme (carboxypeptidase) by X- and a-radiation' by W M Dale, Louis Harold Gray and W J Meredith to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/70/78

Date: 12 September 1947

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He is sorry for the delay in returning the paper,as he didn't return from America until the beginning of August. It is a 'reasonably competent piece of work on a difficult problem'. He cannot referee it thoroughly, since he doesn't know enough about radio-chemistry. Fears that his opinion may not be of value to the Chemistry Committee. It should be read by a competent radio-chemist. Asks for his address to be updated.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1949].

Endorsed on recto as received 15 September 1947.

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RR/70/78
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Francis John Worsley Roughton, Letter from Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'The inactivation of an enzyme (carboxypeptidase) by X- and a-radiation' by W M Dale, Louis Harold Gray and W J Meredith to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 12 September 1947, RR/70/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_70_78/letter-from-francis-john-worsley-roughton-on-a-paper-the-inactivation-of-an-enzyme-carboxypeptidase-by-x-and-a-radiation-by-w-m-dale-louis-harold-gray-and-w-j-meredith-to-the-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 07 December 2024

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