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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'A theoretical study of the influence of diffusion and chemical reaction velocity on the rate of exchange of carbon monoxide and oxygen between the red blood corpuscle and the surrounding fluid' by Phyllis Nicolson and Francis John Worsley Roughton

Reference number: RR/74/48

Date: 08 September 1950

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Paper reference code: B38

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Hill remarks he has written this report without any critical examination of the mathematical and numerical argument as the authors are more knowledgeable on the subject than he is.

[Published in Proceedings B, 1951].

Date received not given.

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RR/74/48
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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'A theoretical study of the influence of diffusion and chemical reaction velocity on the rate of exchange of carbon monoxide and oxygen between the red blood corpuscle and the surrounding fluid' by Phyllis Nicolson and Francis John Worsley Roughton, 08 September 1950, RR/74/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_74_48/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-a-theoretical-study-of-the-influence-of-diffusion-and-chemical-reaction-velocity-on-the-rate-of-exchange-of-carbon-monoxide-and-oxygen-between-the-red-blood-corpuscle-and-the-surrounding-fluid-by-phyllis-nicolson-and-francis-john-worsley-roughton, accessed on 14 January 2026

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