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Barbara McClintock Ph.D.

Barbara McClintock Ph.D.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983

The President’s National Medal of Science – Biological Sciences 1970

Cytogeneticist. Mobile genetic elements, 1948. Nobel after 35 years. Skilled experimentalist, master cytological detail interpreter, brilliant theoretician. Solo labor, no technical help. Friendly fellow scientists. Discriminated as woman.

“Tacit assumptions – substance of dogma – served as barrier to effective communication. My understanding of phenomenon was too radical for time.”

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Books

Title:
The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock’s Ideas in the Century of Genetics
Authors:
Nina Federoff, David Botstein
Editors:
Nina Federoff, David Botstein
Publisher:
CSHL Press, 1992
ISBN:
087969422X, 9780879694227
Length:
422 pages
Subjects:
Science, Life Sciences, Molecular Biology

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