Letter to Pontecorvo from Assistant Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund concerning a PhD prize to be set up in his honour.
- Date:
- May 1997
- Reference:
- UGC 198/1/1/5/6
- Part of:
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Description
The prize was to be awarded to the best PhD thesis each year for four years. The prize was funded by Professor Peter Goodfellow who donated money to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and asked that the prize be named after Pontecorvo. Staff working on PhDs at any ICRF location were eligible for the award. Prize money was 500 pounds.
Publication/Creation
May 1997
Physical description
1 letter and 1 leaflet (2 pages)
Terms of use
Open and available at Glasgow University Archive Services.
.Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
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.