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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