Brachet, Jean, 1909-1988 (Belgian biochemist)

Scope and Contents From the Series: Section L, Correspondence, is by far the most substantial and comprehensive section in the collection. Pollock kept his correspondence - incoming letters and carbon copies of outgoing letters - in a single alphabetical sequence ordered by correspondent and this arrangement has been retained. It includes correspondence with some of the most distinguished biochemists, microbiologists and molecular biologists of the day, including E.P. Abraham, M. Cohn, F.H.C. Crick, E.F. Gale, W.E. van...

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence with various prominent international scientists, chiefly on the subject of research questions or acknowledgements of books/publications received. Correspondents include: Jean Brachet (concerning 'Lysenkoism'), Buzzati-Traverso, Julian Huxley, H.J Bhabha (concerning Indian students studying genetics in the UK), Theodosius Dobzhansky (concerning the arrival of Ukrainian scientist Boris Balinsky at the Institute of Animal Genetics in 1947). Also present is...

Scope and Contents Contains: Photograph of C.H. Waddington with pipe (1947); photograph of Toby Carter in lab coat with mouse (1947); photograph of C.H. Waddington and Salome Waelsch (1948); photograph of Susan [Thoulis?] (1948); photograph of the July 1948 Genetical Society meeting dinner, including C.H. Waddington and Guido Pontecorvo (1948); photograph of Guido Pontecorvo, E.B. Ford and an unknown individual talking at the July 1948 Genetical Society meeting (1948); photograph of four female research...