Pièce RM/4/3/7 - Correspondence with Robert Haselkorn

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Correspondence with Robert Haselkorn in USA (Haselkorn was an American scientist who worked under RM at the VRU for 2 years on an American exchange fellowship (1960-62), then employed by the University of Chicago, later becoming Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology.) Correspondence with RH on virus research, (TMV protein, turnip crinkle virus etc.) exchange of materials, advice on manuscript, work of other colleagues (A Klug, Benns, Fernandez-Moran, Bob Symons, Maurice Rees, Waldo Cohn, Jack Hitchborn etc.). Some correspondence re the fellowship before RH's arrival at the VRU. Letters between RH and Dr Om P Sehgal, University of Arizona on lesion-form strain of TYMV, 1962. RM's references for RH for various positions and fellowships in the US, including a grant renewal and full professorship at Chicago, 1967.

Admin History: Robert Haselkorn, ( 7 Nov 1934 - ), PhD, (Biochemistry) Harvard, Post Doc under Roy Markham, VRU, Cambridge, working on plant viral RNA, Professor of Molecular Genetics and cell Biology, University of Chicago.