Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Charles Leonard Huskins concerning Pontecorvo and Dr Joseph Alan Roper's research into diploids in Aspergillus nidulans and somatic recombination

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/3/1/18
• Dates of Creation:Jun 1951
• Physical Description:
  2 letters (2 pages)

• Administrative / Biographical History

  In 1953 Krebs won the Nobel Prize, along with Fritz Lipman, for their identification of citric acid cycle, the key sequence of metabolic chemical reactions that produces energy in cells (also known as the Krebs cycle).

• Personal Names

  Huskins, Charles Leonard, 1897-1953, geneticist,

  Roper, Joseph Alan, 1924-2007, geneticist,