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    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Cyril Dean Darlington regarding the Arthur Balfour Professorship at Cambridge
    Nov 1956-Jan 1958
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/11/1
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:5 letters, (8 pages)
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    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Cyril Dean Darlington thanking him for his letter of congratulations
    11 Feb 1953
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/3/3/10
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 letter (1 page)
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  • 3
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Professor Cyril Dean Darlington informing him of his decision to turn down the job at Harvard
    5 Sep 1958
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/10/13
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 letter (1 page)
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  • 4
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Cyril Dean Darlington concerning Pontecorvo's decision to take a "firm line" over the terms and conditions of the Professorship at Cambridge
    19 May 1958
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/11/25
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 letter, (1 page)
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  • 5
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Cyril Dean Darlington congratulating him on his election to the Professorship and offering some advice
    5 May 1958
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/11/18
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 letter, (2 pages)
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  • 6
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Typescript copy of Pontecorvo's letter of application for the Lectureship in Genetics at the University of Glasgow
    Mar 1945-May 1945
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/3/1
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:4 letters (4 pages)
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  • 7
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Postcard sent to Pontecorvo from Professor Cyril Dean Darlington saying he would be extremely sorry if Pontecorvo ended up moving to the United States
    15 Apr 1958
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/11/15
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 postcard, (1 page)
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  • 8
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Cyril Dean Darlington concerning some problems with salary for the Arthur Balfour Chair of Genetics at Cambridge
    May 1958
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/11/22
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:4 letters, (5 pages)
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  • 9
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Cyril Dean Darlington about the part in Darlington's book titled The facts of life where he refers to an unknown soldier of World War I and his ideas on "scientific Calvinism" (said to be influenced by one of Bateson's lectures on Mendelism)
    Nov 1953
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/3/1/34
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:2 letters (3 pages)
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  • 10
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Postcard sent to Sir Michael George Parke Stoker from Professor Cyril Dean Darlington
    14 Mar 1961
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/3/3/21
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 postcard (2 pages)
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  • 11
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Cyril Dean Darlington, Dr Joseph Grafton Gall, and Professor Harold Garnet ("Mick") Callan conerning Pontecorvo's decision to write up his "wild speculations about crossing over" and his request for Callan and Galls's contributions from the angle of lampbrush chromosome
    May 1955-Jun 1955
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/3/1/50
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:7 letters, 2 photographs (14 pages)
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  • 12
    Papers of Geoffrey Beale, founder of malaria genetics and Royal Society professor
    Draft chapters 1 and 2 of 'Genetics and Development of Ciliate Protozoa' and other papers
    1950-2001
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1255/11/2
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 folder
    Language:English
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  • 13
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Letters from friends and colleagues congratulating Pontecorvo on his Royal Society Fellowship
    Mar 1955-May 1955
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/1/1/4/2/3
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 bundle of letters (110 pages)
    Language:Italian,
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  • 14
    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1956, and at a meeting about Recombination, c1960
    1953-1960
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/10/1/1/7
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 page with 6 photographs
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    Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Pontecorvo guestbook
    1939-2007
    Ref:GB 248 UGC 198/9/2/1
    Location:University of Glasgow Archive Services
    Extent:1 volume with loose sheets of paper, photos, presscuttings, cards and letters
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