Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor John Burdon Sanderson ("Jack") Haldane concerning the work Haldane had been doing at the Indian Statistical Institute and a detailed overview of research work currently undertaken by Pontecorvo and his team at the University of Glasgow

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/3/3/18
• Dates of Creation:Sep 1960-Nov 1960
• Physical Description:
  4 letters (4 pages)

• Scope and Content

  They also discuss the work of Haldane's colleague S K Roy and Pontecorvo's decision to ask Roy to give a seminar at Glasgow. He also mentions that at Glasgow the main purpose of his research work is "genetics analysis via somatic segregation and gives an update on his Aspergillus work, to which Haldane responds "you are certainly going for Everest rather than Ben Lomond".

• Personal Names

  Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson, 1892-1964, geneticist and evolutionary biologist,