Papers of Dr James Harrison Renwick, 1926-1994, geneticist, University of Glasgow, Scotland 1935-1994

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Papers of Dr James Harrison Renwick, 1926-1994, geneticist, University of Glasgow, Scotland 1935-1994

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1924-

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Renwick, James Harrison (1926-1994 : geneticist : University of Glasgow, Scotland)

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Renwick made a fundamental contribution to modern human genetics, in particular to the development of human gene mapping that paved the way for the Human Genome Project. For a period of some 15 years up to the early 1970s, he pioneered the use of genetic markers to map disease genes on human chromosomes, seeing this field develop from its infancy to a major international scientific endeavour. Working initially at the Galton Laboratory, University College London, with Professor Lionel Sharples Pe...

Renwick, Dr James Harrison, 1926-1994

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Galton Laboratory, University College London, 1904-

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University of Glasgow (1451- : Glasgow, Scotland)

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These are Economic History lecture notes, possibly a lecturer's own notes. There are 6 notebooks within a slipcase. On the slipcase is written in pencil "Dr James Cunnison? Alec Macfie?" The identification of the author of these notes is not certain. There is one letter within volume 6 addressed to Dr Cunnison, but without a comparison of handwriting it has not possible to assign these notes to Dr Cunnison. References within the notes would indicate that they were written after 1924. ...