Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Howard Walter Florey concerning Pontecorvo's move to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/13/12
• Dates of Creation:Nov 1962-Dec 1962
• Physical Description:
  2 letters (2 pages)

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Florey was President of the Royal Society in 1962. He won the 1945 Nobel Prize along with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for their roles in the making of penicillin. He is regarded in his native Australia as one of the country's greatest scientists.

• Personal Names

  Florey, Howard Walter, 1898-1968, pharmacologist, pathologist and Nobel Prize winner,

• Corporate Names

  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1955-,