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Referee's Report by [Edmund John] Bowen on a paper 'Heterogenous catalysis and enzyme reactions' by [Edward Charles Cyril] Baly

Reference number: RR/W/6/105

Date: 16 December 1938

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Paper reference code: A.193

Sectional committee: Chemistry

'I cannot discover from the paper that the hypotheses there developed rest on any experimental foundation or have any application of a sound character to any known system'. Suggests it be sent to [Cyril Norman] Hinshelwood.

[Not published].

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RR/W/6/105
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16 December 1938
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Edmund John Bowen, Referee's Report by [Edmund John] Bowen on a paper 'Heterogenous catalysis and enzyme reactions' by [Edward Charles Cyril] Baly, 16 December 1938, RR/W/6/105, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_6_105/referees-report-by-edmund-john-bowen-on-a-paper-heterogenous-catalysis-and-enzyme-reactions-by-edward-charles-cyril-baly, accessed on 13 August 2026

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