Guido Pontecorvo ("Ponte"): A Centenary Memoir

Genetics | November 1, 2007| | Copyright

IN a memoir published soon after Guido Pontecorvo's death (Cohen 2000), I outlined his attractive, but sometimes irascible, character, his history as a refugee from Fascism, and his most significant contributions to genetics. The centenary of his birth (November 29, 1907) provides an opportunity for further reflections-personal, historical, and genetical.2

Two points of interest arise from the support that Ponte received from the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL). Formed in 1933 as the Academic Assistance Council, SPSL aimed to assist the refugees who had started to ...

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