Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Professor William Hayes concerning Hayes's recent Bateson Lecture

Date:
26 Sep 1973
Reference:
UGC 198/3/2/28
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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 letter from Pontecorvo to Professor William Hayes concerning Hayes's recent Bateson Lecture. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Pontecorvo explains how he does not agree with Hayes's view on "equating classical genetics with the study of the distribution of genes and molecular genetics with the study of their auto and heterocatalytic properties underlying the molecular basis of life". Pontecorvo believed that for Hayes to reach this conclusion he must have "ignored" Hermann Joseph Muller's development of ideas on "informal" genetics and of his contribution to genetics as a whole and sends him some of Muller's reprints so that he can find out.

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26 Sep 1973

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1 letter (2 pages)

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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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