A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller

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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Summary

A Feeling for the Organism is the story of the rise, marginalization and rediscovery of Barbara McClintock and her crucially important work in cytology and genetics, which ultimately led to a revolution in the understanding of the human genome. The author of the book, Evelyn Keller, is a geneticist herself who learned of McClintock's pivotal work as she passed through graduate school. She decided to explore the life of this unusual...

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Mcclintock, Barbara

924 words, approx. 4 pages

Barbara McClintock, having just received the prestigious $15,000 Lasker Award in 1981 for her many contributions to the field of genetics. Mcclintock, Barbara Geneticist 1902-1992 Barbara McCli... Read more

Mcclintock, Barbara

1,397 words, approx. 5 pages

Barbara McClintock. Mcclintock, Barbara American Botanical Geneticist 1902-1992 Barbara McClintock, a pioneering botanical geneticist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1... Read more

Barbara Mcclintock

536 words, approx. 2 pages

Barbara Mcclintock 1902-1992 American Geneticist Barbara McClintock discovered that certain types of genes, called "jumping genes," can move from one place on a chromosome to another, fr... Read more

Mcclintock, Barbara

807 words, approx. 3 pages

Mcclintock, Barbara Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock (1902–1992) was born in Hartford, Connecticut on June 16, and earned a doctorate in botany at Cornell University in 1927. H... Read more

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Barbara McClintock

918 words, approx. 4 pages

Geneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for her discovery that genes could move from place to place on a chromosome.Barbara McClintock was born in Hartford, Co... Read more

Barbara McClintock

795 words, approx. 3 pages

Barbara McClintock was born on June 16, 1902, in Connecticut. The daughter of a physician, she grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York--a rural area during that time. During high school,... Read more

Barbara McClintock

1,150 words, approx. 4 pages

Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American geneticist whose discovery of transposable or jumping genes in the 1940s baffled most of her contemporaries for nearly three decades. McClintock spent near... Read more

Barbara McClintock