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IT has been shown previously1 that the effect of X-rays on phages is in relation to particle size, as determined ultra-filtration and ultra-centrifugation analysis: the larger the particle size, the greater is the sensitiveness of the phage to radiation.
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Wollman and Lacassagne, Ann. Inst. Past., 64, 5 (1940).
We owe this phage and the sensitive strain to the kindness of W. J. Elford.
Luria, Ann. Inst. Past, (in the press).
Calculated on the assumption that β-rays are as effective as X-rays.
Holweck and Lacassagne, C.R. Acad. Sci., 188 and 189 (1929–30); Lea, Haines and Coulson, Pror. Roy. Soc., B, 120, 47 (1935) ; Jordan, Phys. Z., 39, 345 (1938).
Arch. ges. Virusfors., 1, 1 (1939).
A recent estimation of Fano (unpublished, kindly communicated by the author) seems to show this value to be too high.
Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Delbrück and Zimmer, Göttinger Nach., Series 6, 1, 190 (1935).
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WOLLMAN, E., HOLWECK, F. & LURIA, S. Effect of Radiations on Bacteriophage C16. Nature 145, 935–936 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145935b0
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