An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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KENNAWAY, Sir Ernest Laurence

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The formation of a cancer-producing substance from isoprene (2-methyl-butadiene).

J. Path. Bact., 27, 233-38, 1924.

Kennaway produced carcinogenic tars by submitting acetylene or isoprene to high temperatures in an atmosphere of hydrogen, thus proving that some carcinogens are pure hydrocarbons.



Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER, TOXICOLOGY