Copy of a draft letter from Pontecorvo to Professor Conrad Hal ("Wad") Waddington about his Sunday Timesreview James Dewey ("Jim") Watson's book The Double Helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA(1968)

Date:
May 1968
Reference:
UGC 198/7/5/1/7
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Copy of a draft letter from Pontecorvo to Professor Conrad Hal ("Wad") Waddington about his <i>Sunday Times</i>review James Dewey ("Jim") Watson's book <i>The Double Helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA</i>(1968). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Pontecorvo comments on a number of points in Waddington's review and sums up by saying "on the whole, while I have no doubt that Crick is the more original mind, in the DNA work the main drive came from Jim". Also includes copy of Waddington's Sunday Timesarticle titled 'Riding high on a spiral' which appeared in the newspaper on 26 May 1968.

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May 1968

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1 letter, 1 presscutting (3 pages)

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Open and available at Glasgow University Archives Service.

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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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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