Correspondence between Pontecorvo and the Right Honourable Lord Adrian concerning the Arthur Balfour Chair of Genetics

Date:
May 1958
Reference:
UGC 198/2/2/11/16
Part of:
Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Correspondence between Pontecorvo and the Right Honourable Lord Adrian concerning the Arthur Balfour Chair of Genetics. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Lord Adrian wrote to Pontecorvo officially offering him the Professorship after the Electors to the Chair of Genetics agreed he was the most suitable candidate. In Pontecorvo's response letter he writes that he will accept the position but that he still has a few questions regarding salary, accomodation and staff. Letter has been annotated with notes and calculations.

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May 1958

Physical description

2 letters, (3 pages)

Biographical note

Lord Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian was a British electrophysiologist. In 1932 he won the Nobel Prize for Physiology, along with Sir Charles Sherrington, for their work on the function of neurons.

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The original material is held at Glasgow University Archive Services. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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