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Paper reference code: A121

Hodgkin sends a report on Abbott and Ambrose's paper and recommends the paper for publication, however does not agree with its conclusions regarding 'the probable structure of gramicidin S.' Requests permission to discuss the paper directly with the authors.

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

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Endorsed on recto as received 28 August 1952.

Reference number
RR/77/142
Earliest possible date
26 August 1952
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, Letter from Dorothy Hodgkin, on a paper 'The configuration of the polypeptide chain in small peptides such as Gramicidin S' by N B Abbott and E J Ambrose, to D C Martin, 26 August 1952, RR/77/142, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_142/letter-from-dorothy-hodgkin-on-a-paper-the-configuration-of-the-polypeptide-chain-in-small-peptides-such-as-gramicidin-s-by-n-b-abbott-and-e-j-ambrose-to-d-c-martin, accessed on 10 February 2025

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