Background
PONTECORVO, Guido was born on November 29, 1907 in Pisa. Son of Massimo Pontecorvo and Maria (nee Maroni).
geneticist and university professor
PONTECORVO, Guido was born on November 29, 1907 in Pisa. Son of Massimo Pontecorvo and Maria (nee Maroni).
University degli Studi, Pisa, and University of Edinburgh.
Assistant and later Regent of Section, Ispettorato Compartimentale Agrario, Florence 1930-1938. Research Student, Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh 1938-1940, Department, of Zoology, University of Glasgow 1941-1943. Lecturer, Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh 45.
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Department, of Genetics, University of Glasgow 1945-1956, Professor 1956-1968.
Honorary Director Medical Research Council Unit for Cell Genetics 1964-1968. Lecturer, Columbia University 1956, Messenger Lecturer, Cornell University 1957, Leeuwenhoek Lecturer, Royal Society 1962.
Gandhi Memorial Lecturer, Raman Institute 1983. J. Weigle Memorial Lecturer, California Institute of Technology 1984.
Visiting Professor Albert Einstein College, of Medicine, New York 1964, 1965, Washington State University 1967.
Royal Society Leverhulme Visiting Professor Department, of Biophysics, Rio de Janeiro 1969, Department, of Biology, Pahlavi University, Iran 1974. Visiting Professor University College, London 1968-1975, King"s College, London 1969-1970, Middlebury College, Vermont 1971, University of Teheran 1975. Professor Ospite Linceo, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1976-1980.
Raman Professor, Indian Academy, of Science 1982.
President Genetical Society 1964-1965, Honorary. President Institute of Biology 1969-1971.
Staff. Imperial Cancer Research Fund 75, Honorary Consultant Geneticist 1975-1980. 1982; Council, Society for General Microbiology 1959-1960. Indian National Science Academy 1984.
Indian Academy, of Sciences 1983.
Danish Royal Academy 1966. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences 1958.
Peruvian Society Medical Genetics 1969.
Married Leonore Freyenmuth in 1939 (died in 1986).