Item VRU/2/3 - Correspondence Mainly Concerning Applications to Work at VRU

Extent: 1 folder

Btw Roy Markham and W S Mansfield, University Farm, Cambridge, re gate being left open allowing cattle to escape and new arrangements for key, 28 Apr, 5 May 1952. Bundle btw Roy Markham, Dr Harry M Doukas, Nat. Science Foundation, Washington, USA and Melvin V Simpson, Dept. Biochemistry, Yale University re Simpson working at VRU on the National Science Foundation fellowship, includes Simpson's fellowship starting certificate, receipt for research funds (17 Feb 1960) and CV and publications list, 23, 24 Sep 1958, 25 May, 26 Jul, 10, 10 Sep 1959. To Roy Markham from Jack Goldstein, Cornell University, New York, re request to work at VRU as a post-doctorate fellow, 20 Oct 1958. Btw Roy Markhm and Dr K Micaynski, Plant Path. Dept., Rothamsted Experimental Stat., re working at VRU for a few weeks using column chromatography apparatus, 18, 25 April 1959. Btw Roy Markham and Prof. C J O R Morris, Dept. of Experimental Biochemistry, The London Hospital Med. Sch., re visit to VRU by Hogarth, 25, 30 Nov 1959. To Dr Paul O P Ts'o, California Inst. of Technology and The Guggenheim Foundation, USA from Roy Markham re working at VRU on RNA sequence determination, includes Ts'o's CV and list of publications, 30, 30 Nov 1959. Btw Roy Markham and Prof. Daniel Israel Arnon, University of California, Berkeley, re visit to Cambridge to give a talk to the Biochemical Society, dispute between Arnon and Melvin Calvin (Arnon claimed that Calvin was appropriating his discovery of photosynthetic phosphorylation and cell-free photosynthesis), includes page 'added footnote' concerning the disputed discovery, 20, 27 Jun, 22 Jul, 10, 15, 16, 29 Aug 1960. Btw Roy Markham and M E Reichmann, Canada Dept. of Agric., Vancouver, re Reichmann working at VRU for a year on a Canadian post-doctorate scheme, 5, 14 Jul 2, 14 Sep 1960, 20, 26 Jan, 9,20 Mar, 25 May 1961. Btw Roy Markham and R Whitesmith, ARC, London, re Mr A R Khan from Pakistan to work at VRU as a 'Columbo Plan trainee', 9, 12, 15 Aug 1960, 27, 29 Mar 1961. To Roy Markham from Francis Mungen[?], re thanks for visit, 28 Sep 1960. Btw Roy Markham and Dr Leonard Broadbent, Glasshouse Crops Research Inst., Rustington, Sussex, re urea spraying, overwintering TMV, inactivators, controlling spread of virus and what to wear when dealing with viruses, experiment with Eric Taylor, the design of new glasshouses at Rustington, includes paper 'Tomato Mosaic' by Broadbent, 23, 25, 25 Nov, 1 Dec 1960, 10, 18 Oct 1961. Bundle between S M Gershenzon, Roy Markham, C F Rivers, K H J Clarke (ARC), W G Alexander (ARC), S G Korneeve (USSR), re Professor S M Gershenzon, Dept. of Genetics, Inst. of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev, USSR (Russia) and visits by Roy Markham and Gershenzon to Russia/Britain, 13, 30 Dec 1960, 5, 17, 24 Jan, 5 Mar, 24, 31 May, 2, 12 Jun, 28 Jul, 6, 11, 12, 12, 12 Sep, 4 Oct (telegram), 28 Nov 1961 and 3 not dated from Gershenzon. Btw Roy Markham and Dr Peter Stanley Fitt and Dr Aaron Bendich, Sloan-Kettering Inst. for Cancer Research, New York, USA, re Stanley Fitt working at VRU, includes Fitt's CV, 27 Jan, 1, 24 Feb, 2 Mar 1961. Btw Roy Markham and Mr C Sidor, Inst. Pasteur, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, re working at VRU, 31 May, 9 Jun, 11, 23 Nov 1961. Btw Roy Markham and Dr P O Williams, The Wellcome Trust, London, re Dr A H Schein, travel grant, 26, 29 Oct1962. Btw Roy Markham and Miss M J Gard, ARC, London, re Dr J J Haraoui from Lebanon, fellowship, visit to VRU, includes his CV, 19, 22 June 1967. Booklet: 'Treaty Series No. 82 (1959), an agreement between the UK and USSR 'on Relations in the Scientific, Technological, Educational and Cultural fields 1960-61'.

Admin History: Daniel Israel Arnon (November 14, 1910 – December 20, 1994)[1] was a Polish-born American plant physiologist whose research led to greater insights into the operation of photosynthesis in plants. In 1973, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for "his fundamental research into the mechanism of green plant utilization of light to produce chemical energy and oxygen and for contributions to our understanding of plant nutrition." He discovered the essentiality of molybdenum for the growth of all plants and of vanadium for the growth of green algae. Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997)[3] was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.