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MR. CHARLES FREDERICK CROSS, who died in his eightieth year on April 15 at Hove, where he had lived in retirement for some years, left us indebted to him for a life devoted to a most difficult and unpromising branch of chemical research, rewarded by an epoch-making discovery, which is represented in Great Britain to-day by an artificial silk industry with a market capitalisation of more than £70,000,000. He was educated at King's College, London, the University of Zurich and Owens College, Manchester. In 1879, his work on the cellulose group commenced with a study of jute, and later, in association with Mr. E. J. Bevan and Mr. C. Beadle, he started the well-known business of Cross and Bevan, consultants to the paper trade.
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NAPPER, S. Mr. C. F. Cross, F.R.S. Nature 135, 816–817 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135816a0
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