Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Dr Robert Cecil Olby concerning his thoughts on Olby's bookPath to the double helix

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Path to the double helix was first published in 1974 and revised in 1994. Ponteocorvo thought this this was "a most important contribution" and was fascinated by Olby's approach in exploring the history of the discovery of DNA. Pontecorvo describes Jim Watson and Francis Crick as "naively immune to contemporary prejudice".

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Olby, Robert Cecil, 1933-, science historian,

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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, ScotlandUGC 198

Biographical materialUGC 198/1

Career and appointmentsUGC 198/2

Genetics research correspondenceUGC 198/3

Research correspondence marked Glasgow: current research (up to 1960)UGC 198/3/1

Research correspondence marked Research 1960s-1980sUGC 198/3/2

Thank you card sent to Pontecorvo from Richard Benedict GoldschmidtUGC 198/3/2/1

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Boris Ephrussi concerning Pontecorvo's discovery of a "method of haploidization"UGC 198/3/2/2

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Boris Ephrussi concerning Ephrussi's work on hybrid clones and Pontecorvo's trip from Baltimore to Denver in the summerUGC 198/3/2/3

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Mogens Westergaard in which Westergaard asks Pontecorvo for advice and data on somatic mapping as he is keen to cover this topic in his bookUGC 198/3/2/4

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr B S Cox in which Cox requests some marked strains of Aspergillus niger for experiments to explore the extent to which parasexual recombination occurs in natural conditionsUGC 198/3/2/5

Letter to Pontecorvo from Prof Giuseppe LeviUGC 198/3/2/6

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and A P Hamilton in which Mr Hamilton asks Pontecorvo some questions on his use of Aspergillus nidulans and his knowledge of literature on para-fluoro-phenyl alanineUGC 198/3/2/7

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Dan Lewis concerning Lewis's work on methionine suppressors and Pontecorvo's Leewenhoek lectureUGC 198/3/2/8

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor R Ceppellini in which Pontecorvo asks for his comments on his Leewenhoek lecture manuscriptUGC 198/3/2/9

Letter to Pontecorvo from Bernie [Weissbloom] discussing an experiment on the attachment of N-Acetyltyrosine to SRNAUGC 198/3/2/10

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr S H Kindler discussing Kindler's work on the inhibiting effect of leucine on phenylalanine using a mutant of E. coliUGC 198/3/2/11

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Richard I Mateles concerning Pontecorvo's work with Aspergillus flavus-oryzaeUGC 198/3/2/12

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo, Professor Boris Ephrussi and Professor Henry Harris concerning Harris's paper on heterokaryonsUGC 198/3/2/13

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Julius Marmur concerning Pontecorvo's instructions on how to isolate DNA from AspergillusUGC 198/3/2/14

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor T Benedek concerning interesting results on his experiments to mate strains of Nannizzia with ChrysosporiumUGC 198/3/2/15

Copy letter from Pontecorvo to Dr Hubert Rees of the Department of Agricultural Botany at the Institute of Rural Science in Aberystwyth concerning Pontecorvo's interest in Rees's paper in Nature on nuclear variation in angiospermsUGC 198/3/2/16

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Marie Musílková concerning his research on isolating high molecular weight DNA from Aspergillus nidulansUGC 198/3/2/17

Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Boris Ephrussi in which he asks Pontecorvo for the procedure and results of his recent experiement to revert chromosome loss in human-mouse hybridsUGC 198/3/2/18

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Mary Weiss concerning Weiss's research on hybridsUGC 198/3/2/19

Letters to Pontecorvo from Professor Jack A Lucy concerning his experiments with lysolecithin treated 3T3 and WG cells for his research on cell fusionUGC 198/3/2/20

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Guglielmo concerning their researchUGC 198/3/2/21

Photocopied page of experiment results sent to Pontecorvo from Marcello SiniscalcoUGC 198/3/2/22

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick concerning Pontecorvo's comments on Crick's draft paper titled A general model for the chromosomes of higher organismsUGC 198/3/2/23

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Barbara Migeon concerning techniques for the isolation of diploid cells and cloningUGC 198/3/2/24

Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Professor Boris Ephrussi concerning Ephrussi's research on hybrid clonesUGC 198/3/2/25

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Duncan Macdonald concerning his recent article due to be published in Nature and personal and family newsUGC 198/3/2/26

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Edward Charles Cocking concerning references to literature on Methacel (Methylcellulose) and temperature sensitive mutantsUGC 198/3/2/27

Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Professor William Hayes concerning Hayes's recent Bateson LectureUGC 198/3/2/28

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Theodore ("Ted") Puck concerning Pontecorvo's suggestion (and explanation) of an auxotroph selection technique which he used on AspergillusUGC 198/3/2/29

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Frank G Rothman concerning the use of griseofluvin for segregation in human cells and an erroneous reference in NatureUGC 198/3/2/30

Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Dr Thomas H Roderick concerning the research proposal for a three-phase study of germplasm resources submitted by DR R B Stevens of the National Research CouncilUGC 198/3/2/31

Copies of letters from Pontecorvo to Dr John Forster Cairns concerning his ideas on stem cells conserving "W or C in the stem lineage"UGC 198/3/2/32

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Ruggero Ceppellini concerning the possibility of them taking part in some joint research in the new Roche Laboratory for cell geneticsUGC 198/3/2/33

Card sent to Pontecorvo from [Johann Friedrich Georg Melchers] concerning his research on introducing artificial sex in somatic cellsUGC 198/3/2/34

Correspondence between Pontecorvo to Dr John Tooze, Executive Secretary of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) concerning his ideas for a 2-3 days workshop to demonstrate polyethylent glycol fusionUGC 198/3/2/35

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Vincenzo Miggiano concerning research on cell fusion and Pontecorvo's course on Polyethylene glycol (PEG) fusion to be held in January 1977UGC 198/3/2/36

Copies of letters from Pontecorvo to Dr Joan K Stadler concerning his research on "fusion competence"UGC 198/3/2/37

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo to the Committee on the Safety of Medicine at the Departement of Health and the Medical Director of Glaxo LaboratoriesUGC 198/3/2/38

Copies of letters sent from Pontecorvo to Dr Mary Weiss concerning the technique of Polyethylene glycol (PEG) cell fusionUGC 198/3/2/39

Copies of letters sent from Pontecorvo to Dr P Schaeffer concerning the technique of Polyethylene glycol (PEG) cell fusionUGC 198/3/2/40

Letters from Professor Charlotte ("Lotte") Auerbach asking if he was aware of the referee who commented on her book Mutation researchUGC 198/3/2/41

Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Dr Robert Cecil Olby concerning his thoughts on Olby's book Path to the double helixUGC 198/3/2/42

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Miranda Robertson, the Editor of Nature, concerning a comment made at the Friedrich Miecher Institut Symposium on Biology by Charles Weissman about "splicing"UGC 198/3/2/43

Research correspondence marked potentially valuable signaturesUGC 198/3/3

Correspondence relating to patents and Pontecorvo's research work on AspergillusUGC 198/3/4

Other research correspondenceUGC 198/3/5

Alpine plant research correspondenceUGC 198/4

Material relating to Pontecorvo's research trips abroadUGC 198/5

Research photographs and slidesUGC 198/6

PublicationsUGC 198/7

Lectures and broadcastsUGC 198/8

Personal and family papersUGC 198/9

Personal photographs and slidesUGC 198/10