Guido Pontecorvo
Guido Pontecorvo · Science & Medicine
Geneticist who pioneered fungal genetics and the mapping of genes within a chromosome.
1907, Pisa, Italy — 1999, Wengen, Switzerland
Italy · United Kingdom
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Guido Pontecorvo was an Italian-British geneticist who pioneered the genetics of fungi and developed methods for mapping genes within a single chromosome using the mold Aspergillus. He was born into a prominent Italian-Jewish family in Pisa and left for Britain after Fascist racial laws, spending his career largely in Glasgow. He was a founder of modern microbial and somatic-cell genetics.
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Geneticist who pioneered fungal genetics and the mapping of genes within a chromosome.
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