1. Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo FRS FRSE was an Italian-born Scottish geneticist.
10 Facts About Guido Pontecorvo
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Guido Pontecorvo was born on 29 November 1907 in Pisa into a family of wealthy Italian industrialists.
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Guido Pontecorvo was a brother to Gillo Pontecorvo and Bruno Pontecorvo.
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Guido Pontecorvo was dismissed from his post in Florence in 1938, due to his Jewish heritage.
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Guido Pontecorvo then fled to Britain in 1939 with his new wife Leonore Freyenmuth.
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Guido Pontecorvo's proposers were Alan William Greenwood, John Walton, Hugh Donald and James E Nichols.
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Guido Pontecorvo was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955.
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Guido Pontecorvo died in Saint-Luc, Switzerland, on 25 September 1999 while on holiday, and is buried there with his wife and his daughter.
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The Guido Pontecorvo Building is part of the Anderson College complex located on Dumbarton Road in the West End of Glasgow.
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Guido Pontecorvo has lent his name to the annual Pontecorvo Award, presented to the final year undergraduate student in the department with the highest grades.