Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Michael T Sampson of the Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd Research Department
- Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/5/1
- Dates of Creation:Feb 1948-May 1948
- Physical Description:6 letters (8 pages)
Scope and Content
Correspondence concerns the offer of a job in the Research Department working with Michael T Sampson. Pontecorvo postpones making a decision for some time and, in the end, decides to stay at Glasgow where the University was "moving in the right direction as regards accommodation for the department," despite moving at "a maddeningly slow speed". Correspondence also touches briefly on Genetical Society matters.
Administrative / Biographical History
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company, taken over by AkzoNobel, a Dutch conglomerate, one of the largest chemical producers in the world. In its heyday, ICI was the largest manufacturing company in the British Empire producing paints, ingredients for foods, specialty polymers, electronic materials, fragrances and flavours.
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