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Photographs of Pontecorvo with Sewall Knight, aged 91, at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, where he gave a seminar, Dec 1980

Page contains: Photograph of Sewall Knight at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, where he gave a seminar, Dec 1980; Photograph of Sewall Knight with Walter F Bodmer and Betty Robinson at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, Dec 1980; Photograph of Sewall Knight with Walter F Bodmer and Pontecorvo at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, Dec 1980.

Papers of Guido Pontecorvo, personal and family photographs and negatives

Photograph albums

Science photo album

Slip of green card with the title, "Ponte's History of Genetics'

Copy of a sketch of Gregor Mendel

Photograph of the founders of genetics Wilhelm Johannsen and William Bateson, and cards and postcards sent to Pontecorvo from friends

Photographs of the 100th Genetical Society meeting in Cambridge on 30 June 1949 and of staff at the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1956, and at the 100th meeting of the Genetical Society at Cambridge, 1949

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1946, and in Switzerland in 1953

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1956, and at a meeting about Recombination, c1960

Photographs of friends and colleagues in Cold Spring Harbor 1946 and c1955, and in Copenhagen c1955

Copy of a presscutting from The Guardianrelating to Barbara McClintock being awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize

Photographs of Pontecorvo giving lectures and receiving honorary degrees as well as others of his friends and colleagues

Photographs of friends and colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor, 1946 and of attendees of the 2nd Microbial Genetics Conference in Palanza, 1952

Photographs of Pontecorvo and friends and colleagues at a gathering in June 1956, as well as some of Magnus Westergaard and his wife Ebba in Copenhagen, c1950s

Photograph of attendees of the UNESCO Conference on Patterns of Biological Organization at the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, 6-10 September 1957, and of friends and colleagues at the CIBA Foundation Symposium, London 27-29 March 1957

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at Loch Lomond, 1958, at the Spallanzani Commemoration in Italy in 1959 and of guests at the CIBA Foundation reception in Naples, 1959

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in 1961, in Edinburgh in 1962, in Purdue, Indiana in 1962, and receiving the Emil Christian Hansen prize in 1961

Copy of a poem titled Cancer's a Funny Thingby John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, reprinted from the New Statesman

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at Loch Lomond in 1958 and in 1964, of attendees at a meeting at "The Burn" in 1964 and of Hermann Joseph Muller and his wife near Elk Lake in the USA, 1963

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the Gordon Research Conference at New Hampton on Nucleic Acids in 1964, of friends receiving the Lasker Award in 1964, and photographs of Lionel Penrose

Photographs of Pontecorvo receiving his honorary degree at a graduation ceremony at the University of Leicester, 1968, and with friends and colleagues at the CIBA Symposium, 1970

Photographs of Pontecorvo with attendees of the Middlebury Conference on Biology Teaching, 1971

Photographs of Pontecorvo with attendees of the Ronde Roussel, Paris, 1971 and of friend and colleague Sidney C Harland and family near Lima, 1969

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues attending the Colloque Protoplantes at Versailles, 1972, on excursions in Tehran and Guijan, 1975, and attending the International Congress of Genetics at Berkeley, 1973

Photographs of Pontecorvo receiving his honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of East Anglia, 1974, and attending the International Congress of Genetics at Berkeley, 1973

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues attending the 1st Lesley Clarence Dunn Lecture at the New York Blood Centre, 25 June 1976

Photographs of Pontecorvo receiving his honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Glasgow, 21 June 1978

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the CIBA 'Genetics in Human Biology' Symposium in honour of Wolstenholme who was about to retire as Director, 26-29 June 1978

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the Genetique Somatique Conference, Inserm, 1979, and in Sri Lanka, 1978, plus some of colleague Dan Lewis

Photographs of Pontecorvo giving an opening address titled "Plant Cell Cultures: Results and Perspectives", Pavia, 1979, plus others of friends and colleagues c1975-1981

Photographs of Pontecorvo signing the book of the US National Academy of Sciences, April 1984, plus others of friends and colleagues c1970s-1980s

Photographs of Pontecorvo during his visit to India to give the Ghandi Memorial Lecture at the Raman Research Unit in Bangalore, January 1983

Photographs of Pontecorvo with Professors Anurag K Sharma and Archana Sharma in London, 1984, and of Pontecorvo taking research photographs on Gigha in 1965 and at Bella Tola in 1969

Photographs of D A Hopewood, Nov 1984 and of Pontecorvo with Roger Barry and family in Colorado, 1984

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the Meeting of the Associazione Genetica Italiana at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 3 Dec 1987, on the occasion of Pontecorvo's 80th birthday

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at Fortunago near Pavia, May 1976, and of Ella Maillant and Ve Engelhart, Chandolin, Sep 1975

Photograph of Sewall Knight in London to receive the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society, 3 Dec 1980

Photographs of Pontecorvo and other attendees at the International Conference on Genetics, Stockholm, 1948

Photograph of Ronald Aylmer Fischer and Tschermak at the International Conference on Genetics, Stockholm, 1948

Photographs of Pontecorvo, including some with friends and colleagues, on trips to Tien Shan, Beijing, Quinghai and the Great Wall of China, 1988

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the opening of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Institute in Pathology, led by Lionel Crawford, Dec 1988, and at the 150th anniversary of the Facolta di Agraria, Feb 1991

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in St Luc, Jul 1991, and at the 150th anniversary of the Facoltàdi Agraria, Feb 1991

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the opening lecture of postgraduate training in Science in Pavia, 23 Mar 1993

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues in Alghero, Sardinia, 31 Mar 1993

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at the Seymour Benzer 'Mendel Lecture' at the Genetics Society, London, 12 Nov 1994, and at the Galton Laboratory Meeting on recombination in memory of J Renwick, 16 Mar 1995

Photographs of Pontecorvo with Luca Cavalli-Sforza the day after his admission as a foreign member of the Royal Society, London, Jun 1993

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the renaming ceremony of the Insitute of Genetics building as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995

Photographs of Pontecorvo at the renaming ceremony of the Insitute of Genetics as the Pontecorvo Building, celebrating 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995

Photographs of Pontecorvo with friends and family at a party to celebrate the renaming of the Insitute of Genetics as the Pontecorvo Building, marking 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, 15 May 1995

Photographs of a party to celebrate the renaming of the Insitute of Genetics as the Pontecorvo Building, marking 50 years of the Institute at the University of Glasgow, May 1995

Photographs of Francis Crick and colleagues at some kind of genetics meeting or residential conference (no captions)

Photographs of J Alan Roper and colleagues at the Burn during a meeting about Recombination

Photographs of Pontecorvo with unidentified colleagues at a meeting or conducting field work

Photographs of Pontecorvo with Sewall Knight, aged 91, at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, where he gave a seminar, Dec 1980

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