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Letter from Harry Work Melville, to David Christie Martin, regarding a paper 'Studies in polymerization - III. The polymerization of methyl methacrylate' by Clement Henry Bamford and Michael James Stewart Dewar

Reference number: RR/71/20

Date: 29 November 1948

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

The authors have met some of his criticisms, and does not think it worthwhile pursuing the other points, so the paper may now be published.

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

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RR/71/20
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29 November 1948
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1 page
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Typescript

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Harry Work Melville, Letter from Harry Work Melville, to David Christie Martin, regarding a paper 'Studies in polymerization - III. The polymerization of methyl methacrylate' by Clement Henry Bamford and Michael James Stewart Dewar, 29 November 1948, RR/71/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_20/letter-from-harry-work-melville-to-david-christie-martin-regarding-a-paper-studies-in-polymerization-iii-the-polymerization-of-methyl-methacrylate-by-clement-henry-bamford-and-michael-james-stewart-dewar, accessed on 24 April 2025

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