Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher concerning exciting research undertaken by one of Pontecorvo's students on crossing-over within minute segments of the chromosome

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That student was Robert H ("Bob") Pritchard.

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Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, 1890-1962, statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and geneticist,

Pritchard, Robert H, fl 1950s-1990s, geneticist,

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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

Research correspondence marked potentially valuable signaturesUGC 198/3/3

Letters sent to Pontecorvo from Salvador Edward Luria concerning Pontecorvo's recent papers in Nature and research plansUGC 198/3/3/1

Letter sent to Pontecorvo from Professor Boris Ephrussi regarding Ephrussi's research workUGC 198/3/3/2

Letter sent to Pontecorvo from Professor Joshua Lederberg thanking him for sending a reprint on auxanography and discussing his work on recombinationUGC 198/3/3/3

Letter sent to Pontecorvo from Professor Joshua Lederberg commenting on a point about the "absence of inositolless mutants among bacteria", which Pontecorvo discussed in his paper for the Biochemical Society SymposiumUGC 198/3/3/4

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Salvador Edward Luria concerning Luria's paper on virus reproduction in Science, and Pontecorvo's research at GlasgowUGC 198/3/3/5

Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Hermann Joseph Muller concerning Muller's comments on Joseph Alan Roper's paper (based on Pontecorvo's ideas) on allelism and its discussion of the "position effect" and his comments on another paper about radiation effectsUGC 198/3/3/6

Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor John Burdon Sanderson ("Jack") Haldane concerning cases of multiple allelomorphism (or complete coupling) described in Mendel's Principal of HeredityUGC 198/3/3/7

Letter to Pontecorvo from Curt Stern commenting on a abstract for a paper by Pontecorvo and Joseph Alan Roper on somatic [crossing-over]UGC 198/3/3/8

Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Boris Ephrussi responding to what Pontecorvo described as "the nightmare of defining "genetic" properties and changes"UGC 198/3/3/9

Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Cyril Dean Darlington thanking him for his letter of congratulationsUGC 198/3/3/10

Letter to Pontecorvo from Cyril Norman Hinshelwood concerning his views on mutants and the processes involved in "adaptive changes"UGC 198/3/3/11

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet concerning Pontecorvo's comments on Burnet's ideas on the role of recombination in epidemiology and the development of virulent strains by recombinationUGC 198/3/3/12

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher concerning exciting research undertaken by one of Pontecorvo's students on crossing-over within minute segments of the chromosomeUGC 198/3/3/13

Letter to Pontecorvo from André Michel Lwoff commenting on how impressed he was with Pontecorvo's paper Mapping the chromosomes by means of mitotic crossing-overUGC 198/3/3/14

Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor John Burdon Sanderson ("Jack") Haldane concerning his current research into biometry and experiments on mixed crops on South BiharUGC 198/3/3/15

Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor John Burdon Sanderson ("Jack") Haldane thanking him for sending him a copy of his book Trends in Genetic Analysis, and commenting on its discussion of "negative interference"UGC 198/3/3/16

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey concerning plans to encourage international cooperation between geneticistsUGC 198/3/3/17

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor John Burdon Sanderson ("Jack") Haldane concerning the work Haldane had been doing at the Indian Statistical Institute and a detailed overview of research work currently undertaken by Pontecorvo and his team at the University of GlasgowUGC 198/3/3/18

Letter to Pontecorvo from Theodosius Dobzhansky concerning their views on genetic recombination and their "specious arguments" about their differing ideasUGC 198/3/3/19

Letters to Pontecorvo from Professor Hermann Joseph Muller thanking friends and colleagues who attended his 70th birthday celebrations or sent gifts and assuring everyone that he was in good health after his fainting spellUGC 198/3/3/20

Postcard sent to Sir Michael George Parke Stoker from Professor Cyril Dean DarlingtonUGC 198/3/3/21

Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick concerning a discussion about DNA and how mutations can alter amino acidsUGC 198/3/3/22

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Charles A Thomas Junior discussing Linus Carl Pauling's ideas on proposed models of DNAUGC 198/3/3/23

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Curt Stern concerning Stern's memoir of Professor Richard Benedict GoldschmidtUGC 198/3/3/24

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