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Dyson Perrins Laboratory South Parks Road Oxford OX13QY john.brown chem.ox.ac.uk... 

Present address The Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford 0X13QY, U. K. The author thanks the University of London for the award of a University Postgraduate Studentship (1973-1975). 

Present address The Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, South... 

Hardly any French scientists studied abroad. Kirrmann was unusual in his decision to spend a year in Munich in 1930, but he had, after all, been born in German Alsace. John C. Smith notes in his history of Oxford s Dyson Perrins Laboratory, directed by Robert Robinson in the 1920s and 1930s, that there was a great mixture there of ages and nationalities among the twenty or so research students each year but never, until 1947, a French person. 91 This insularity contributed to the closure of the boundaries of the research school associated with Lespieau s laboratory at the Ecole Normale Superieure and to its exclusion from the wider disciplinary history of physical organic chemistry and theoretical chemistry. 

See Todd. A Time to Remember, 2627, commenting on the Dyson Perrins laboratory at Oxford in 1931. 

JOHN M. BROWN, PENNY A. CHALONER, and DAVID PARKER Dyson Perrins Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford 0X1 3QY U.K. 

Professor C. K. Prout (Oxford, U.K.) is thanked for X-ray crystallographic work along with the EPSRC mass spectrometry service (Swansea, U.K.) for providing high resolution mass spectra. The technical support staff of the Dyson Perrins Laboratory (Oxford, U.K.) are also thanked for their invaluable assistance. 

Andrew M. Fryer The Dyson Perrins Laboratory Oxford, England... 

John M. Brown Dyson Perrins Laboratory University of Oxford South Parks Rd. 

Despite the misogyny of the Alembic Club, a significant number of women chemists worked in the Dyson-Perrins Laboratory (DP) in the 1930s. Oxford had hoped that the arrival of Frederick Soddy75 from Aberdeen (subsequently to be rejoined by his research assistant, Ada Hitchins see Chap. 7) would usher in a school of radiochemistry, but Soddy s attentions were more on economics. It was to be organic chemistry that mainly provided Oxford with its chemical claim to fame. The impetus was the construction of the DP, for long the envy of all other university chemistry departments. 76 And it was the DP which... 

Hartley, H. (1955). Schools of chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland-XVI The University of Oxford, Part II. Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry 79 176-184. See also Knowles, J. (2003). The Dyson Perrins Laboratory at Oxford. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 1 3625-3627. 

Walsh drove around Oxford in her Standard 12 car, as Smith recalled Mrs. (Gertrude) Robinson was not a good driver she not only forgot to wear her glasses, but she sat so low that she peered through the steering-wheel. One was often surprised at the positions in which her car stood outside the D. P. [Dyson Perrins Laboratory]. 56... 

Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford University, England. 

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