Copy of a handwritten letter from Pontecorvo to the Principal, Sir Hector Hetherington, concerning the situation with his brother, Bruno Pontecorvo

Date:
23 Oct 1950
Reference:
UGC 198/2/2/3/3
Part of:
Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Copy of a handwritten letter from Pontecorvo to the Principal, Sir Hector Hetherington, concerning the situation with his brother, Bruno Pontecorvo. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

In the letter Pontecorvo offers his resignation "in view of the publicity attached to my surname," if the Principal thought this would be best for the University's reputation. Annotated "Bruno's affair".

Publication/Creation

23 Oct 1950

Physical description

1 letter (1 page)

Biographical note

Bruno Pontecorvo (1913-1993) was an Italian-born nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and then the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. He defected to the USSR in 1950, where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos.

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The original material is held at Glasgow University Archive Services. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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