Typescript copy of Pontecorvo's letter of application for the Lectureship in Genetics at the University of Glasgow

Date:
Mar 1945-May 1945
Reference:
UGC 198/2/2/3/1
Part of:
Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Typescript copy of Pontecorvo's letter of application for the Lectureship in Genetics at the University of Glasgow. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Also includes a letter to Pontecorvo from Cyril Dean Darlington, Director of the John Innes Institution in London, who was one of his referees for the post, as well as a letter from the University Secretary of Court confirming his appointment to the Lectureship.

Publication/Creation

Mar 1945-May 1945

Physical description

4 letters (4 pages)

Biographical note

Darlington discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover, its role in inheritance, and its importance to evolution. He spent most of career working in the John Innes Horticultural Institution, and as Sherardian Chair of Botany at the University of Oxford.

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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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Open and available at Glasgow University Archives Service.

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Location of original

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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