Box of slides of Pontecorvo's family and friends, holidays, and the Pontecorvo chalet in St Luc in Val d'Anniviers
- Date:
- 1950s-1990s
- Reference:
- UGC 198/10/2/3/2
- Part of:
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Mostly of Pontecorvo's daughter Lisa, his wife, Leni, and family holidays and celebrations. Also includes photographs of flowers in the rock garden at the Potecorvo family chalet at St Luc in Val d'Anniviers and views and scenery in the surrounding area.
In addition to this there is also a series of slides from a picnis at Salome Waelsh's country house near New York in 1976. Waelsh (1907-2007) was a German-born US geneticist and co-founder of developmental genetics.
All slides are annotated with a description and a date.
Publication/Creation
1950s-1990s
Physical description
1 box (437 slides approx)
Terms of use
Open and available at Glasgow University Archives Service.
Where to find it
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.