Photocopies of correspondence between Pontecorvo, Sir Hector Hetherington and Alexander Bird concerning expanding the accomodation of the Genetics Department

Date:
Jan 1947-Oct 1947
Reference:
UGC 198/2/1/1/1
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Photocopies of correspondence between Pontecorvo, Sir Hector Hetherington and Alexander Bird concerning expanding the accomodation of the Genetics Department. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

In one of the letters Pontecorvo explains that he has visited the ICI Research Laboratory at Welwyn after the offer of a job but he decided that "granted adequate facilities for training graduates in research at Glasgow University I should render a better service to genetics in this country by staying here....". In the same letter he explains to the Principal his committment to researching the genetics of mircoorganisms and its "considerable potentialities" for developments in industry, medicine and agricultural. He goes on to say that Glasgow could lead the way in this field but that he can only develop the Department of Genetics with support from the University. Also includes copy of Pontecorvo's 'Quinquennial Programme of Research in the Department of Genetics', dated 1947.

A couple of these pages have not photocopied well and are dark or faded thus it can be difficult to read the text.

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Jan 1947-Oct 1947

Physical description

8 letters and 1 programme (13 pages)

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Open and available at Glasgow University Archives Service.

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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The original material is held at Glasgow University Archive Services. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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