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IT is difficult nowadays to think back to the time when it was considered eccentric to apply the tools of the scientists to the problems of the artist—when there was no laboratory, no group of research physicists and chemists, at the National Gallery, the Louvre, the Bitish Museum, the Courtauld Institute Louvere the British Museum. These, and their counterparts elsewhere, owe much to one bold pioneer—Arthur Pillans Laurie, whose death on October 7 at the age of eighty-seven has deprived them of their doyen.
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RITCHIE, P. Dr. A. P. Laurie. Nature 164, 987–988 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164987a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164987a0