Photographs of Pontecorvo at the renaming ceremony of the Insitute of Genetics as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995

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Photograph of Pontecorvo with John Clutterbuck at the renaming ceremony;
Photograph of Pontecorvo with former staff of the Institute of Genetics at the renaming ceremony on the roof of the Pontecorvo Building, including Mrs McMath, Robt McMath, Mrs Donald, Marion Stone (long-term technician), Margaret Forbes, Ted Forbes (retired chief techician) Tom McKim (Chief Technician), Carlo Mucci (techician), and Jean Fransman (longterm /techician/storekeeper).
Photograph of Pontecorvo with John Subak-Sharpe and Joanna Wilson.

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UGC 198/10/3/8, photographs from the official renaming of the Institute of Genetics building on 5 April 1995 and associated celebrations.

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Subak-Sharpe, John Herbert, 1924-, virologist,

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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

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

Photograph albumsUGC 198/10/1

Science photo albumUGC 198/10/1/1

Slip of green card with the title, "Ponte's History of Genetics'UGC 198/10/1/1/1

Copy of a sketch of Gregor MendelUGC 198/10/1/1/2

Photograph of the founders of genetics Wilhelm Johannsen and William Bateson, and cards and postcards sent to Pontecorvo from friendsUGC 198/10/1/1/3

Photographs of the 100th Genetical Society meeting in Cambridge on 30 June 1949 and of staff at the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of EdinburghUGC 198/10/1/1/4

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1956, and at the 100th meeting of the Genetical Society at Cambridge, 1949UGC 198/10/1/1/5

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1946, and in Switzerland in 1953UGC 198/10/1/1/6

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1956, and at a meeting about Recombination, c1960UGC 198/10/1/1/7

Photographs of friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1946 and c1955, and in Copenhagen c1955UGC 198/10/1/1/8

Copy of a presscutting from The Guardian relating to Barbara McClintock being awarded a posthumous Nobel PrizeUGC 198/10/1/1/9

Photographs of Pontecorvo giving lectures and receiving honorary degrees as well as others of his friends and colleaguesUGC 198/10/1/1/10

Photographs of friends and colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor, 1946 and of attendees of the 2nd Microbial Genetics Conference in Palanza, 1952UGC 198/10/1/1/11

Photographs of Pontecorvo and friends and colleagues at a gathering in June 1956, as well as some of Magnus Westergaard and his wife Ebba in Copenhagen, c1950sUGC 198/10/1/1/12

Photograph of attendees of the UNESCO Conference on Patterns of Biological Organization at the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, 6-10 September 1957, and of friends and colleagues at the CIBA Foundation Symposium, London 27-29 March 1957UGC 198/10/1/1/13

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at Loch Lomond, 1958, at the Spallanzani Commemoration in Italy in 1959 and of guests at the CIBA Foundation reception in Naples, 1959UGC 198/10/1/1/14

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in 1961, in Edinburgh in 1962, in Purdue, Indiana in 1962, and receiving the Emil Christian Hansen prize in 1961UGC 198/10/1/1/15

Copy of a poem titled Cancer's a Funny Thing by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, reprinted from the New StatesmanUGC 198/10/1/1/16

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at Loch Lomond in 1958 and in 1964, of attendees at a meeting at "The Burn" in 1964 and of Hermann Joseph Muller and his wife near Elk Lake in the USA, 1963UGC 198/10/1/1/17

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the Gordon Research Conference at New Hampton on Nucleic Acids in 1964, of friends receiving the Lasker Award in 1964, and photographs of Lionel PenroseUGC 198/10/1/1/18

Photographs of Pontecorvo receiving his honorary degree at a graduation ceremony at the University of Leicester, 1968, and with friends and colleagues at the CIBA Symposium, 1970UGC 198/10/1/1/19

Photographs of Pontecorvo with attendees of the Middlebury Conference on Biology Teaching, 1971UGC 198/10/1/1/20

Photographs of Pontecorvo with attendees of the Ronde Roussel, Paris, 1971 and of friend and colleague Sidney C Harland and family near Lima, 1969UGC 198/10/1/1/21

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues attending the Colloque Protoplantes at Versailles, 1972, on excursions in Tehran and Guijan, 1975, and attending the International Congress of Genetics at Berkeley, 1973UGC 198/10/1/1/22

Photographs of Pontecorvo receiving his honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of East Anglia, 1974, and attending the International Congress of Genetics at Berkeley, 1973UGC 198/10/1/1/23

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues attending the 1st Lesley Clarence Dunn Lecture at the New York Blood Centre, 25 June 1976UGC 198/10/1/1/24

Photographs of Pontecorvo receiving his honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Glasgow, 21 June 1978UGC 198/10/1/1/25

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the CIBA 'Genetics in Human Biology' Symposium in honour of Wolstenholme who was about to retire as Director, 26-29 June 1978UGC 198/10/1/1/26

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the Genetique Somatique Conference, Inserm, 1979, and in Sri Lanka, 1978, plus some of colleague Dan LewisUGC 198/10/1/1/27

Photographs of Pontecorvo giving an opening address titled "Plant Cell Cultures: Results and Perspectives", Pavia, 1979, plus others of friends and colleagues c1975-1981UGC 198/10/1/1/28

Photographs of Pontecorvo signing the book of the US National Academy of Sciences, April 1984, plus others of friends and colleagues c1970s-1980sUGC 198/10/1/1/29

Photographs of Pontecorvo during his visit to India to give the Ghandi Memorial Lecture at the Raman Research Unit in Bangalore, January 1983UGC 198/10/1/1/30

Photographs of Pontecorvo during his visit to India to give the Ghandi Memorial Lecture at the Raman Research Unit in Bangalore, January 1983UGC 198/10/1/1/31

Photographs of Pontecorvo with Professors Anurag K Sharma and Archana Sharma in London, 1984, and of Pontecorvo taking research photographs on Gigha in 1965 and at Bella Tola in 1969UGC 198/10/1/1/32

Photographs of D A Hopewood, Nov 1984 and of Pontecorvo with Roger Barry and family in Colorado, 1984UGC 198/10/1/1/33

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the Meeting of the Associazione Genetica Italiana at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 3 Dec 1987, on the occasion of Pontecorvo's 80th birthdayUGC 198/10/1/1/34

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at Fortunago near Pavia, May 1976, and of Ella Maillant and Ve Engelhart, Chandolin, Sep 1975UGC 198/10/1/1/35

Photographs of Pontecorvo with Sewall Knight, aged 91, at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, where he gave a seminar, Dec 1980UGC 198/10/1/1/36

Photograph of Sewall Knight in London to receive the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society, 3 Dec 1980UGC 198/10/1/1/37

Photographs of Pontecorvo and other attendees at the International Conference on Genetics, Stockholm, 1948UGC 198/10/1/1/38

Photographs of Pontecorvo and other attendees at the International Conference on Genetics, Stockholm, 1948UGC 198/10/1/1/39

Photograph of Ronald Aylmer Fischer and Tschermak at the International Conference on Genetics, Stockholm, 1948UGC 198/10/1/1/40

Photographs of Pontecorvo, including some with friends and colleagues, on trips to Tien Shan, Beijing, Quinghai and the Great Wall of China, 1988UGC 198/10/1/1/41

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the opening of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Institute in Pathology, led by Lionel Crawford, Dec 1988, and at the 150th anniversary of the Facolta di Agraria, Feb 1991UGC 198/10/1/1/42

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in St Luc, Jul 1991, and at the 150th anniversary of the Facoltàdi Agraria, Feb 1991UGC 198/10/1/1/43

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the opening lecture of postgraduate training in Science in Pavia, 23 Mar 1993UGC 198/10/1/1/44

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Alghero, Sardinia, 31 Mar 1993UGC 198/10/1/1/45

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the Seymour Benzer 'Mendel Lecture' at the Genetics Society, London, 12 Nov 1994, and at the Galton Laboratory Meeting on recombination in memory of J Renwick, 16 Mar 1995UGC 198/10/1/1/46

Photographs of Pontecorvo with Luca Cavalli-Sforza the day after his admission as a foreign member of the Royal Society, London, Jun 1993UGC 198/10/1/1/47

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the renaming ceremony of the Insitute of Genetics building as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995UGC 198/10/1/1/48

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the renaming ceremony of the Insitute of Genetics building as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995UGC 198/10/1/1/49

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the renaming ceremony of the Insitute of Genetics as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995UGC 198/10/1/1/50

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the renaming ceremony of the Insitute of Genetics as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995UGC 198/10/1/1/51

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and family at a party to celebrate the renaming of the Insitute of Genetics as the Pontecorvo Building, marking 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, 15 May 1995UGC 198/10/1/1/52

Photographs of a party to celebrate the renaming of the Insitute of Genetics as the Pontecorvo Building, marking 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995UGC 198/10/1/1/53

Photographs of Francis Crick and colleagues at some kind of genetics meeting or residential conference (no captions)UGC 198/10/1/1/54

Photographs of J Alan Roper and colleagues at the Burn during a meeting about RecombinationUGC 198/10/1/1/55

Photographs of Pontecorvo with unidentified colleagues at a meeting or conducting field workUGC 198/10/1/1/56

Pontecorvo's 80th birthday albumUGC 198/10/1/2

Loose personal and family prints and negativesUGC 198/10/2

Photographs of conferences, lectures and genetics colleaguesUGC 198/10/3