Early career and appointments, bulk: Bulk, 1959-1961, Bulk, 1959-1961 1959-1963

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MS. Bodmer 3

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Correspondence and papers relating to Bodmer's early research and career, principally the move to the Stanford University in 1961 to work with Professor Joshua Lederberg.

Comprises:

Folder 1: Mainly correspondence, including exchanges with Sir Ronald Fisher concerning Walter Bodmer's application to a lectureship at Cambridge University. Also includes a research report from a trip to work with Guido Pontecorvo in the Department of Genetics at Glasgow University, 1959-1960
Folder 2: Correspondence and papers concerning the Harkness Fellowship, manuscript and typescript research reports relating to the genetics of homostyle primroses, 1959-1960
Folder 3: Correspondence and related papers concerning arrangements for Bodmer's move from Cambridge to Stanford University. Folder also contains manuscript and typescript research plans and reports, Nov 1960-Feb 1961
Folder 4: Correspondence, mainly concerning travel arrangements to America, 1961-1963