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Abrahams with Bell Telephones in New York, Walter Macintyre in Boulder, James Trotter in Vancouver, M. G. Rossmann in Cambridge, H. M. M. Shearer in Durham, and J. S. Broadley and D. M. Donaldson at Dounreay, Thurso (now atomic energy). Ian Dawson (now electron microscopy), J. C.
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Speakman, George Sim, Tom Hamor and Andrew Porte (now nuclear magnetic resonance) are all back in
Glasgow again, after adventures in other places, and are actively participating in our latest and most exciting work."
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in the United States, but returned to the Royal
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