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THE First International Congress of Biochemistry, initiated by the Biochemical Society, will be held in Cambridge during August 19–25 under the presidency of prof. A. C. Chibnall. The holding of this Congress marks a definite stage in the development of biochemistry as the branch of science covering that ill-defined territory between chemistry and the many branches of biology. The need for an inter-national congress on this subject has been evident for some time ; indeed, eight congresses for French-speaking biochemists have already been organised since 1927 by the Société de Chimie Biologique. The list of distinguished chemists and biochemists who have consented to be honorary vice-presidents is truly international: Prof. J. P. Collip (Canada), Prof. N. E. Cruz-Coke (Chile), Prof. M. Florkin (Belgium), Prof. A. J. Kluyver (Netherlands), Prof. K. Linderstrøm-Lang (Denmark), Academician J. O. Parnas (U.S.S.R.), Prof. J. Roche (France) and Dr. D. D. van Slyke (United States).
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First International Congress of Biochemistry. Nature 164, 216 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164216a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164216a0