Unidad documental simple VRU/1/2/2/2 - Roderick MacLeod

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Bundle of letters re Roderick MacLeod: Bundle of letters regarding MacLeod's admission/finances as a 3 year Cambridge research student working at the VRU, 1960. Letter to the Murdo Macaulay Trust from Roy Markham re MacLeod's progress and progression to Ph.D.candidate, 31 May, 1961. Leaflet: Wellcome Research Travel Grants, Sep 1961. Letter from MacLeod to M Hollings, Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Rustington, re plant viruses, 5 Nov 1962. Bundle of letters re scholarships/awards etc. for Macleod to spend three years in the USA as a Post-doctorate research scholar with Prof. LM Black at the Uni. of Illinois and Dr Peter Moran at the National Cancer Research Inst., Maryland, 1963. Letter btw Dr A M Pleid, Public Health Lab Service, London and MacLeod re wound tumour virus and reoviruses, 19 July, 1 Aug 1963. Dr Robert J Shepherd to Roy Markham re paper with MacLeod on turnip yellow and wild cucumber mosaic viruses, 27 March, 10, 19, 29 July 1963. Leaflet: Fulbright Travel Grants, 1963-4

Admin History: Roderick MacLeod, b. 31 Dec 1936, Isle of Lewis; worked at the VRU as a Cambridge research/Ph.D student completing his thesis on Cocoa Yellow Mosaic Virus.