by R. A. Peters , F.R.S., Whitley Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Oxford
For several years Professor Peters and his colleagues have been studying the behaviour of a particular poison associated with certain parts of Africa. This specific study has, however, broadened into a more fundamental study of ' lethal synthesis,' as Professor Peters described in his recent Croonian Lecture to the Royal Society. In this talk he shows how some apparently unrelated topics fit together and lead to an explanation of fundamental biological processes.