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Letter from Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, on a paper 'Crystallite growth in graphitising and non-graphitising carbons' by Rosalind E Franklin, to D C Martin

Reference number: RR/75/62

Date: 12 April 1951

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Paper reference code: A55

Hodgkin feels 'incompetent' about this paper, and remarks it is worth while , however long. Therefore is prepared to accept Professor Randall's view regarding this paper as he is an 'expert'.

Written at Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, University Museum, Oxford [England].

[Published in Proceedings A, 1951].

Endorsed on recto as received 13 April 1951.

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RR/75/62
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12 April 1951
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, Letter from Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, on a paper 'Crystallite growth in graphitising and non-graphitising carbons' by Rosalind E Franklin, to D C Martin, 12 April 1951, RR/75/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_75_62/letter-from-dorothy-mary-crowfoot-hodgkin-on-a-paper-crystallite-growth-in-graphitising-and-non-graphitising-carbons-by-rosalind-e-franklin-to-d-c-martin, accessed on 09 March 2026

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