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Guido Pontecorvo, was born into a family of wealthy Italian Industrialists. He fled to Britain after being dismissed from his post in Florence in 1938, due to his Jewish heritage. He was offered a job at the

Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, but was interned on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien when Italy entered the war in 1940. On his release in 1941, he was offered lab space in the Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow

Edinburgh - 1938–40 and 1944–45 Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow, 1941–44

Dept of Genetics, University of Glasgow, 1945-68 (Professor 1956-68) Honorary Director, MRC Unit of Cell Genetics, 1966–68

Member of research staff, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1968–75

Honorary Consultant Geneticist, ICRF, 1975–80 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955.[2]

He was one of eight children. He was a brother to Gillo Pontecorvo and Bruno Pontecorvo.