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RefNoMM/24/36
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Dorothy Hodgkin, Powder Hill, Boar's Hill, Oxford, to Grace Mary Crowfoot and John Winter Crowfoot
Date13 September 1953
DescriptionNothing has happened about the American visa and she has accepted the invitation to visit laboratories in Russia 16 September-3 October. Apart from wanting to go to Pasadena, it is an invitation that should be accepted, personal from the Academy of Sciences. The people asked were recommended by Kathleen Lonsdale. Others going to Russia include Henry Whitehead and Dick Synge, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year. Family news, including a week in Cornwall, camping in a pine wood overlooking the Helford River.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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