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Letter from John Edward Lennard-Jones, 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 David Brunt, secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/77/32

Date: 16 April 1952

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Paper reference code: A23

Lennard-Jones has looked through Roughton's but is hesitant to report on a paper by a colleague. Remarks the general method is correct though he has not checked the formulae in detail, and agrees with the first referee that the paper consists of 'heavy' mathematics for a paper dealing with biological processes, and this part could be published separately.

Written at The Chemical University Laboratory, Cambridge [England].

[Published in Proceedings B, 1952].

Endorsed on recto as received 17 April 1952.

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RR/77/32
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John Edward Lennard-Jones, Letter from John Edward Lennard-Jones, 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 David Brunt, secretary of the Royal Society, 16 April 1952, RR/77/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_32/letter-from-john-edward-lennard-jones-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-david-brunt-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 16 July 2026

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