This morning the Radio 4 programme Today broadcast a feature about the Wellcome Library’s ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’ project. The Wellcome Library is bringing the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first… Read More ›
As today’s post I would like to share some of my favourite images of the 3 Glasgow geneticists, whose papers are presently being digitised having been selected for inclusion in the Wellcome Digital Library’s Modern Genetics and its Foundations. Guido… Read More ›
Welcome to the Photographic Unit’s Digitisation Suite (PUDS) Blog Over the next 12 months digitisers Sam Dyer and Jamie Dunn, along with Project Manager Dr Sam Maddra, will be embarking on their first major digitisation task, the Glasgow Modern Genetics Wellcome… Read More ›
As well as the many records relating to genetics and academia, the Pontecorvo collection also contains records relating to Ponte’s personal life. These include a series of detailed household account books and diaries kept by Ponte’s wife Leni from 1941-… Read More ›
During his time at the University of Glasgow, Guido Pontecorvo carried out experiments involving the fungus Aspergillus nidulans, and techniques for exploring the nature of gene action. He believed that “in no area of biology have ideas arisen so often… Read More ›
Despite coming from a large family where he was the eldest of 5 brothers and 3 sisters, Guido Pontecorvo’s immediate family consisted only of his wife Lenore and his daughter Lisa. Ponte described his marriage to Leni, a Swiss art-historian… Read More ›
Work has begun on cataloguing the papers of Guido Pontecorvo, the University’s first Professor Genetics and one of the ‘world changers’ on the recently launched University of Glasgow World Changing website. Pontecorvo, who liked to be known by his nickname,… Read More ›
