Guido Pontecorvo

Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo FRS FRSE (29 November 1907 – 25 September 1999) was an Italian-born Scottish geneticist. Life Guido Pontecorvo was born on 29 November 1907 in Pisa into a family of wealthy Italian industrialists. He was one of eight children. He was a brother to Gillo Pontecorvo and Bruno Pontecorvo. He was dismissed from his post in Florence in 1938, due to his Jewish heritage. He then fled to Britain in 1939 with his new wife Leonore Freyenmuth (of German descent). Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh. 1938–40 and 1944–45 Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow, 1941–44 Dept of Genetics, University of Glasgow, 1945–68 (Professor 1956–68) Honorary Director, MRC Unit of Cell Genetics, 1966–68 Member of research staff, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1968–75 Honorary Consultant Geneticist, ICRF, 1975–80