Evelyn Maisel Witkin Ph.D.
Evelyn Maisel Witkin Ph.D.
National Medal of Science – Biological Science 2002
Photo: Courtesy Evelyn M. Witkin
Name: Evelyn Maisel Witkin
Birth: 9 March 1921 New York City
Title: Barbara McClintock Professor Emerita
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Citation: “For her insightful and pioneering investigations on the genetics of DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair that have increased our understanding of processes as varied as evolution and the development of cancer.” Presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on November 6, 2003
Zoologist – Molecular Geneticist. E. coli. DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair. Interests: Science education in public schools; Connections between contemporary Victorians poet Robert Browning and Charles Darwin.
Essentially same grant from 1956 until retirement in 1991.
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Title:
Genetics of Resistance to Radiation in EScherichia Coli
Author:
Evelyn Maisel Witkin
Publisher:
Columbia Univ., 1947
Length:
248 pages
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