Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Sir Hector Hetherington regarding developments in Pontecorvo's patent application for the "method of synthesis of strains of micro-organisms used in industrial processes"

Date:
Oct 1951-Feb 1952
Reference:
UGC 198/3/4/2/4/4
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Sir Hector Hetherington regarding developments in Pontecorvo's patent application for the "method of synthesis of strains of micro-organisms used in industrial processes". In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Pontecorvo writes that "there is no more than a hope that the method may be patentable" but that "with patent or without, the method is likely to lead to valuable industrial developments in certain fermentation industries".

Publication/Creation

Oct 1951-Feb 1952

Physical description

4 letters (6 pages)

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Open and available at Glasgow University Archive Services.

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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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