File titled 'Foreign Scientists', 1942-1951
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 correspondence relating to the resuming of international relations with scientists after the Second World War, including a letter to Professor Crew (1947), signed by many members of the Genetics Society of Japan, including Takata, as well as Waddington's reports on his visit to Germany on behalf of the ARC in 1946 to collect information about German academic biology during the war.
Some letters are in French and German.
Dates
- Creation: 1942-1951
Creator
- From the Series: Waddington, Conrad Hal, 1905-1975 (embryologist and professor of animal genetics, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
Language of Materials
English French German
Conditions Governing Access
Folder 1 Open for Access; Folder 2 Open with Signed Data Protection Form, Restriction Lifting in January 2026
Full Extent
2 folders
Physical Location
CLX-A-1077
Subject
- Bhabha, Homi Jehangir, 1909-1966 (Indian nuclear physicist) (Person)
- Brachet, Jean, 1909-1988 (Belgian biochemist) (Person)
- Buzzati Traverso, Adriano, 1913-1983 (Italian geneticist) (Person)
- Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
- Dobzhansky, Theodosius, 1900-1975 (Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist) (Person)
- Holtfreter, Johannes, 1901-1992 (German-American developmental biologist ) (Person)
- Huxley, Julian S, 1887-1975 (English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist) (Person)
- Takata, C., fl 1945-? (Japanese geneticist) (Person)
- Genetics Society of Japan (1915-:) (Organization)
Repository Details
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