Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Cyril Dean Darlington about the part in Darlington's book titled The facts of life where he refers to an unknown soldier of World War I and his ideas on "scientific Calvinism" (said to be influenced by one of Bateson's lectures on Mendelism)

Date:: Nov 1953

Reference:: UGC 198/3/1/34

Part of:: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland

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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, ScotlandUGC 198
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, genetics research correspondenceUGC 198/3
  - Research correspondence marked 'Glasgow: current research (up to 1960)'UGC 198/3/1
    - Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Cyril Dean Darlington about the part in Darlington's book titled The facts of life where he refers to an unknown soldier of World War I and his ideas on "scientific Calvinism" (said to be influenced by one of Bateson's lectures on Mendelism)UGC 198/3/1/34

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Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Cyril Dean Darlington about the part in Darlington's book titled <i>The facts of life</i> where he refers to an unknown soldier of World War I and his ideas on "scientific Calvinism" (said to be influenced by one of Bateson's lectures on Mendelism). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Pontecorvo believed that this unknown soldier was James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor) and that Bridie mentions these scientific ideas throughout all of his plays.

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Nov 1953

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2 letters (3 pages)

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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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