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- ↑ "Anthony Standen Is Dead at 86; Chemist Who Deflated Pomposity", Wolfgang Saxon, June 25, 1993, The New York Times
- ↑ "Personal Survival:Do we live after death?" (pages 384-399), Biographical info and essay by Standen in The Spirit of Man: Great Stories and Experiences of Spiritual Crisis, Inspiration, and the Joy of Life, Whit Burnett (Ed.), Ayer Publishing, 1969, ISBN 0836900367