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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

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Page contains: Photograph of Pontecorvo with friends and colleagues at a party at Jim Renwick's house, including Obaid Siddiqui, Bernard Cohen and his wife, Jim Renwick and his wife, Cecily Martin-Smith, Jennifer Dee, Lorna Lilly, G Le Bouvier and J Gale, Father [Lhoas], 1961; Photograph of Pontecorvo with Rümke at the Meeting of the Genetical Society, Edinburgh, April 1962; Photograph of Pontecorvo with Seymour Benzer and Bernie Weissblum in Purdue, Indiana, 1962; Photograph of Pontecorvo and Holter receiving the Emil Christian Hansen prize and medal, 2 November 1961; Photograph of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane at the CIBA Symposium on the "Future of Man", London, December 1962.

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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

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