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Philip Lawley

Philip Lawley

British chemist

Philip Douglas Lawley (4 July 1927 – 18 December 2011 )[1] was a British chemist, best known for demonstrating that DNA damage was the base cause of cancer working with Peter Brookes.[1][2] In January 2003 the ICR honoured the achievements of Brookes and Lawley by naming a £21m laboratory after them. It is devoted to research on the genetic nature of cancer and located next to the Haddow laboratories.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Venitt, Stanley; Phillips, David H. (2012). "Philip D. Lawley (1927–2011) Chemist who discovered that cancer is caused by damage to DNA". Nature. 482 (7383): 36. doi:10.1038/482036a. PMID 22297963.
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    "Professor Philip Lawley". Archived from the original on 2012-03-10.
  3. [3]
    Venitt, Stanley (2012-01-23). "Philip Lawley obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
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