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)
- Date:
- Nov 1953
- Reference:
- UGC 198/3/1/34
- Part of:
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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About this work
Description
Pontecorvo believed that this unknown soldier was James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor) and that Bridie mentions these scientific ideas throughout all of his plays.
Publication/Creation
Nov 1953
Physical description
2 letters (3 pages)
Terms of use
Open and available at Glasgow University Archive Services.
.Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
Where to find it
Location of original
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.