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- 1 2 List of Fellows of the Royal Society
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- ↑ "Mollon, John — Medicine | Caius College Cambridge". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2014. Gonville and Caius list of the current Master and Fellows
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- ↑ Web page of the University of Durham
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