Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Professor Sir Peter Brian Medawar about meeting up during his visit to London for a Mycological Society meeting in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Date:: 26 Feb 1958

Reference:: UGC 198/2/2/11/5

Part of:: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland

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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, ScotlandUGC 198
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, career and appointmentsUGC 198/2
  - Correspondence relating to posts held by Pontecorvo, and readerships and other appointments he applied for throughout his career in various UK and international instutionsUGC 198/2/2
    - Department of Genetics, University of CambridgeUGC 198/2/2/11
      - Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Professor Sir Peter Brian Medawar about meeting up during his visit to London for a Mycological Society meeting in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineUGC 198/2/2/11/5

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Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Professor Sir Peter Brian Medawar about meeting up during his visit to London for a Mycological Society meeting in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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26 Feb 1958

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1 letter (1 page)

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Sir Peter Brian Medwar's work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, and was Knighted in 1965.

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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