Letter to Pontecorvo from Joshua Lederberg discussing Pontecorvo's paper given recently in Bristol [on diploids and Aspergillus]
- Date:
- 25 Jul 1951
- Reference:
- UGC 198/3/1/20
- Part of:
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Publication/Creation
25 Jul 1951
Physical description
1 letter (1 page)
Biographical note
Lederberg won a Nobel Prize in 1958 (along with Edward L Tatum and George Beadle) for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes. He was also conducted extenive research in artificial intelligence and worked with NASA on exploring the possible existence of life on Mars.
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.
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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.