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 ›
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 ›
