Letters sent to Pontecorvo from Salvador Edward Luria concerning Pontecorvo's recent papers in Natureand research plans

Date:
Dec 1944-Dec 1945
Reference:
UGC 198/3/3/1
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Letters sent to Pontecorvo from Salvador Edward Luria concerning Pontecorvo's recent papers in <i>Nature</i>and research plans. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Luria asks if it is worth exploring whether "phenomena of the type of heterokaryosis, with nuclear exchanges, occcur in bacteria" and also asks Pontecorvo about his plans for the future and if he will return to Italy. One letter is in Italian.

Publication/Creation

Dec 1944-Dec 1945

Physical description

2 letters (2 pages)

Biographical note

Luria won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his pioneering work with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey on phages in molecular biology.

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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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