Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Paul Doty concerning Pontecorvo's offer of a job at Harvard

Date:
May 1958-Jun 1958
Reference:
UGC 198/2/2/10/11
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Paul Doty concerning Pontecorvo's offer of a job at Harvard. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

In the correspondence Doty discusses his recent trip to the Biology Department at Harvard and his conversations with McGeorge Bundy on how Bundy intended to modernise the Department and how he was hoping Pontecorvo would help with this if he accepted the position at Harvard.

Publication/Creation

May 1958-Jun 1958

Physical description

3 letters (5 pages)

Biographical note

Doty worked was Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard University. He helped to create the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard and it is said that he played a role in recruiting James Dewey ("Jim") Watson as Assistant Professor there.

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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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