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Letter from Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'Diffusion and chemical reaction velocity in cylindrical systems of physiological interest (with an appendix of spherical systems)' by Francis John Worsley Roughton, to D C Martin

Reference number: RR/77/31

Date: 19 March 1952

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Paper reference code: A23

Rideal writes: 'Dear Martin, Many thanks for your letter of the 14th March. I certainly have no objection to Rougton knowing my name, but, unfortunately, I have come down with a duodenal ulcer, and I think that the question of discussion of this paper is off for sometime to come. I do not know whether I can contribute much to the discussion; I only thought that Roughton had used a sledge hammer to deal with a subject that it still rather tentative. With kind regards, Yours sincerely, Eric K Rideal'.

Written at University of London King's College, Department of Physical Chemistry, Strand [England].

[Published in Proceedings B, 1952].

Endorsed on recto as received 20 March 1952.

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Eric Keightley Rideal, Letter from Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'Diffusion and chemical reaction velocity in cylindrical systems of physiological interest (with an appendix of spherical systems)' by Francis John Worsley Roughton, to D C Martin, 19 March 1952, RR/77/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_31/letter-from-eric-keightley-rideal-on-a-paper-diffusion-and-chemical-reaction-velocity-in-cylindrical-systems-of-physiological-interest-with-an-appendix-of-spherical-systems-by-francis-john-worsley-roughton-to-d-c-martin, accessed on 21 July 2026

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