Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to the Right Honorable Earl of Halsbury discussing the completion of his collaboratory work with Dr Giuseppe Sermonti on applying their "discovered [recombination] technique" to Penicillium chrysogenum

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/3/4/2/2/2
• Dates of Creation:23 Mar 1953
• Physical Description:
  1 letter (1 page)

• Scope and Content

  Sermonti was a guest researcher from the WHO Centre for Chemical Mircobiology in Rome. Pontecorvo writes that, as no industrial laboratory has shown interest in their research work, there would be no point in pursuing patent application.

• Personal Names

  Giffard, John Anthony Hardinge, 1908-2000, 3rd Earl of Halsbury, scientist,

  Sermonti, Giuseppe, 1925-, geneticist,

• Corporate Names

  National Research Development Corporation, 1948-,