The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) celebrates 170 years of publishing, and to mark this occasion we want to find out more about the first author on record.
The first paper to be published in April 1841 was written by Thomas George Tilley “On some of the products of the action nitric acid castor oil”; it was published in the Memoirs of the Chemical Society.
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ON SOME OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE ACTION OF NITRIC ACID ON CASTOR OIL
Thomas George Tilley
Mem. Chem. Soc., Lond., 1841, 1, 1-6
DOI: 10.1039/MP8410100001, Paper
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