Item RM/4/8/1 - Correspondence with John B Bancroft

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Correspondence with John Basil Bancroft, Head of the Virus Research Unit 1970-73, includes testimonials on Bancroft by RM for an award, Bancroft's CV, paper 'Properties of Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus and its Protein and Nucleic Acid'.

Admin History: John Basil Bancroft (31 Dec 1929 - 22 Jan 2013) born in Vancouver, Canada, BA, University B.C., 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1955. Purdue University, 1955-1970; Professor of Plant Pathology, Purdue University, 1964-1970; Fellow at the Virus Research Unit, Cambridge University, 1965.Head of Virology Dept., John Innes Institute 1970-1973; Professor Plant Science, U. Western Ontario 1973; Dean of Plant Science, U. Western Ontario, 1979. John received a National Science Foundation senior postdoctoral fellowship to work at the Virus Research Laboratory in Cambridge in 1965. His research culminated in the first reconstruction of a spherical virus. During this time, John received various awards including the Ruth Allen Award and McCoy Award. In 1970, Bancroft was asked to establish a Virus Research Department at the John Innes Institute, which had recently moved to Norwich, Norfolk. Three years after the department was established, John and his family decided to return to North America, first as a professor then as the Dean of Science at the University of Western Ontario. John received an honorary doctorate from Purdue as well as becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.