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RefNoROR/4/24
AltRefNoD.24
LevelFile
TitleLetters to Robert Robinson from Holger G H Erdtman
Date1939-1972
DescriptionContains personal and scientific correspondence, including a discussion of compounds isolated from pine for the pulp industry and a report from a conference on the genesis of gas and oil. Also contains some correspondence relating to potential Nobel prizes for Dorothy Hodgkin and John Warcup Cornforth [Erdtman served on the Nobel Chemistry Committee]. Includes a carbon copy of one letter from Robinson to Erdtman, and some later correspondence containing an account of Erdtman's career, for Robinson's memoirs.
Extent1 folder
NotesSee also ROR/1/5/2, which contains Erdtman's discussion of Robinson's work on the structure of alkaloids at the award of his Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1947.
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