Correspondence between Pontecorvo and the Right Honourable Lord Rothschild concerning the Arthur Balfour Professorship at Cambridge

Date:
Feb 1958-Mar 1958
Reference:
UGC 198/2/2/11/4
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 Rothschild concerning the Arthur Balfour Professorship at Cambridge. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Discussing Pontecorvo's reasons for thinking about leaving Glasgow and his problems securing adequate accommodtion and research facilities there. Lord Rothschild was determined to keep Pontecorvo in the UK and was keen for him to consider the move to Cambridge.

Publication/Creation

Feb 1958-Mar 1958

Physical description

5 letters, 1 telegram (8 pages)

Biographical note

Lord Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, was a biologist who studied at Cambridge, and returned there after the war to work in the Zoology Department. During the war he worked with MI5 on bomb disposal, disinformation and espionage.

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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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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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