University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of John Leonard Jinks 1952-1988

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Individual letters are regularly acquired, usually by purchase, to complement holdings of personal papers and institutional archives within the Special Collections Department.The letters are added to either a general sequence of autograph letters (described here) or one of a small number of separate sequences of autograph letters devoted to a particular individual. Reference: University of Birmingham, Guide to Special Collections Archives and Manuscripts (http://www.is.b...

Jinks, John L.

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Jinks, John Leonard, 1929-

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John Leonard Jinks, 1929-1987, geneticist. Jinks was educated at Longton High School, Stoke-on-Trent before winning a state studentship to University of Birmingham where he obtained a first class degree in Botany in 1950. He became an Agricultural Research Council Scholar (ARC) in the Department of Genetics, gaining his doctorate in 1952, followed by a D.Sc in 1964. Jinks spent most of his career at the University of Birmingham working in the ARC Unit of Biometrical Genetics as Scie...