Photograph album presented to Waddington by Institute staff on his 50th birthday, November 1955
Item — Box: EUA IN1/ACU/A1/6/4
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/A1/6/4
Scope and Contents
The volume contains various group and individual photographs of the Institute staff, as well as original paintings and drawings of Waddington in the mock-styles of various artists by Ruth Clayton and E.D Roberts. Some of the individuals feaured in the photographs are: Charlotte Auerbach, Boris Balinsky, Geoffrey Beale, Richard Alan Beatty, Alick Buchanan-Smith, George and Ruth Clayton, Hugh Donald, Douglas Falconer, Alan Greenwood, Henry Kacser, Mary Lyon, Eric Lucey, Margaret Perry, Alan Robertson, Forbes Robertson and Barnet 'Woggy' Woolf.
Dates
- November 1955
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open.
Biographical / Historical
Waddington's 50th birthday celebrations in November 1955 went down in the annals of the Institute's history. Alan Robertson's memoir of Waddington records that it 'marks in a way the peak of the Institute's existence under his leadership. The party was arranged with great effort, with a series of genetic ditties composed by Barnet Woolf and sung by a male voice choir conducted by Selman...There was an epigenetic landscape constructed as a pinball machine, with the ball mostly travelling down the main valley to produce normal phenotypes but on occasions being diverted into a secondary valley and producing a mutant.' (Alan Robertson, Conrad Hal Waddington 1905-1975, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 23, 575-622 (583) Dec 1977).
Extent
1 volume
Dimensions
39.6 x 29.4cm
- Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh)
- Balinsky, John (Ivor Boris), 1934-1983 (Ukrainian/American embryologist)
- Beale, Geoffrey Herbert, 1913-2009 (founder of malaria genetics, Royal Society professor)
- Beatty, Richard Alan, 1915-2005 (reproductive biologist)
- Buchanan-Smith, Alick Drummond, Baron Balerno, 1898-1984 (soldier, politician and applied geneticist)
- Clayton nee Drucker, Ruth, 1925-fl 1949 (geneticist)
- Clayton, George, fl 1969 (British geneticist)
- Donald, Hugh Paterson, 1908-1989 (geneticist and director of Animal Breeding Research Organisation)
- Falconer, Douglas Scott (professor of genetics, University of Edinburgh and director of the Agricultural Research Council, Unit of Animal Genetics)
- Greenwood, Alan William, 1897-1981 (genetical physiologist and director of ARC Poultry Research Centre)
- Kacser, Henrik, 1918-1995 (biochemist and geneticist)
- Latyszewski, Miron, 1901-fl 1955 (geneticist)
- Lucey, Eric, 1923-2010 (scientific film pioneer)
- Lyon, Mary Frances (geneticist)
- Mendel, Johann Gregor, 1822-1884 (Austrian biologist and botanist)
- Perry, Margaret M, fl 1966 (geneticist)
- Photograph albums
- Photographs
- Roberts, Edward Daniel, 1917-fl. 1955 (artist and illustrator)
- Robertson, Alan, 1920-1989 (English population geneticist)
- Robertson, Forbes William, 1920-2012 (British geneticist)
- Waddington, Conrad Hal, 1905-1975 (embryologist and professor of animal genetics, University of Edinburgh)
- Woolf, Barnet 'Woggy', c.1906-c.1981 (scientist)
Creator
- From the Sub-subfonds: University of Edinburgh, Institute of Animal Genetics (1930-1990) (university research institute) (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk