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Books
Comfort, N C. (2001). The tangled field: Barbara McClintock’s search for the patterns of genetic control.
McGrayne, S Bertsch. (c1998). Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries. Joseph Henry Press: Washington, D.C.
Smeltzer, R K. (2013). Extraordinary women in science & medicine: four centuries of achievement. Grolier Club: New York.
Journal Articles
Comfort, N. C. (1999). ‘The Real Point Is Control’: The Reception of Barbara McClintock’s Controlling Elements. Journal of the History of Biology, (1). 133.
In the standard narrative of her life, Barbara McClintock discovered genetic transposition in the 1940s but no one believed her. She was ignored until molecular biologists of the 1970s ‘rediscovered’ transposition and vindicated her heretical discovery. New archival documents, as well as interviews and close reading of published papers, belie this narrative.
Fedoroff, N. V. (1991). The restless gene: how the colors of indian corn have led to an understanding of wandering DNA. The Sciences, (1), 22.
Moore, R. (1999). Learning from the best: Barbara McClintock. Journal Of College Science Teaching, 427.
Biologist Barbara McClintock, born 1902, had a long and successful career in science before her death in 1992. She was an expert in plant genetics and was awarded the Nobel Prize at the age of 81. McClintock’s research work on Indian corn in the 1940s led her to believe that chromosomes were transposable. Her research, which was dismissed by the research community, was later affirmed.
Robinson, J. (1999). Dr. McClintock and the Jumping Genes. Child Life, (8).
Dr. Barbara McClintock was a scientist who formulated the “jumping gene” hypothesis while working in a corn patch and a lab in Cold Spring, New York. For her discovery, she […]