Photocopies of correspondence between Pontecorvo, Sir Hector Hetherington, Michael Stoker and others, concerning the expansion of the accommodation of the Genetics Department

Date:
Dec 1955-Mar 1958
Reference:
UGC 198/2/1/1/4
Part of:
Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Photocopies of correspondence between Pontecorvo, Sir Hector Hetherington, Michael Stoker and others, concerning the expansion of the accommodation of the Genetics Department. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Correspondence is labelled "Cold War". Following on from similar conversations first started in 1947, Pontecorvo requests the use of the Bacteriology Laboratory to teach Agricultural students in the short term and lays out his plans and requirements for the expansion of the Genetics Wing. Also concerns discussions of the new Virology building on Church Street, Glasgow.

Publication/Creation

Dec 1955-Mar 1958

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22 letters (30 pages)

Biographical note

Sir Michael Stoker (1918- ) was the first Professor of Virology at the University of Glasgow (the first Chair of Virology to be established at a British university), 1958 to 1968. In 1968, Stoker left Glasgow to become Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London, and was subsequently President of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

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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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