Item GS/8/9/3/6 - Photograph of population geneticists in Pavia

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Black and white photograph of population geneticists in Pavia. Back row (left to right): Kenneth Mather, da Cunha, John Haldane, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Conrad Waddington, Carl Epling, Hampton Carson, A Robertson (?), and Douglas Falconer. Middle row: E B Ford, B Wallace, H Lewis, Fisher, Lerner and Scossivoli. Front row: Ernst Mayr, P Levine, Buzzati- Traverso, Clanson and Prevosti.

Admin History: Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (January 25, 1900 – December 18, 1975) was a prominent American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis. Dobzhansky was born in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, and became an immigrant to the United States in 1927, aged 27 years old. Douglas Scott Falconer (10 March 1913 in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire – 23 February 2004 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish geneticist known for his work in quantitative genetics. Hampton Lawrence Carson (November 5, 1914 – December 19, 2004) was an eminent American biologist best known for his work on the chromosomes of new species of the fruit fly Drosophila and his contributions to our understanding of their evolution Carl Clawson Epling (15 April 1894 - 19 November 1968) was an American botanist who is best known for being the major authority on the Lamiaceae (mint family) of the Americas from the 1920s to the 1960s. In his later years he also developed an interest in genetics. Conrad Hal Waddington (8 November 1905 – 26 September 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary developmental biology. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane ( November 1892 – 1 December 1964) was a British-born scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics Sir Kenneth Mather (22 June 1911 – 20 March 1990) was a British geneticist and botanist. Adriano Buzzati-Traverso (6 April 1913, Milan, Italy – 22 April 1983) was an Italian geneticist. In 1962 he founded in Naples the Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica (International Laboratory of Genetics and Biophysics).