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ON Tuesday, September 29, the Governing Body and the Director of the Lister Institute entertained Prof. The Svedberg of Uppsala and a number of interested physicists, biochemists and biologists on the occasion of the completion of the new ultra-centrifuge plant. In welcoming the guests, Prof. J. C. G. Ledingham explained that in anticipation of Prof. Svedberg's visit to London on his way home from the Harvard celebrations, every effort had been made to put the finishing touches to the new installation. Dr. McFarlane, Lister Institute fellow in biophysics and a former pupil of Prof. Svedberg, had been almost entirely responsible not only for the design of the building to accommodate the new plant, but also for the supervision of the lay-out and assembly of all the accessory connexions, -electrical, optical, refrigerating, etc., carried out by the Institute's engineering staff. Throughout the whole work, he had enjoyed the constant advice amd co-operation of Prof. Svedberg. The total cost of the installation, including the new building, was about £7,000, of which sum the Rockefeller Foundation had most generously contributed £3,400 in defrayment of the cost of the new machines.
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New Ultracentrifuge Installation at the Lister Institute. Nature 138, 654–655 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138654a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138654a0