Photographs of Pontecorvo at the renaming ceremony of the Insitute of Genetics building as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/10/1/1/48
• Dates of Creation:May 1995
• Physical Description:
  2 pages with 5 photographs and 1 caption

• Scope and Content

  Page contains:

  • 2 photographs of Pontecorvo outside the Basil Spence designed building of the Insitute of Genetics, renamed as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995;
  • Photographs of Pontecorvo unveiling a plaque showing the new name of the building at the renaming ceremony;
  • Photograph of Pontecorvo outside the reconstructed Anderson College Building, University of Glasgow, 7 May 1995;
  • Photograph of the Pontecorvo Building, formerly the Insitute of Genetics;
  • Pontecorvo's small handwritten list of events being marked by the celebrationof 50 years of genetics at the University of Glasgow.

  These photographs were taken by Bernard L Cohen.

• Related Material

  UGC 198/10/3/8, photographs from the official renaming of the Institute of Genetics building on 5 April 1995 and associated celebrations.

• Personal Names

  Spence, Basil Urwin, 1907-1976, architect,