عنوان

Barbara McClintock :

(Number (ISBN

1438104103

(Number (ISBN

9781438104102

Erroneous ISBN

0816061726

Erroneous ISBN

9780816061723

Number

b717944

Title Proper

Barbara McClintock :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

pioneering geneticist /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Chelsea House Publishers,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxi, 136 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Makers of modern science

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-125) and index.

Text of Note

Born to seek knowledge (1902-1918): Appreciation for solitude -- Thirst for knowledge -- Brooklyn and Erasmus Hall High School -- College: to go or not to go? -- Science as a way of finding out (1919-1927): Women in science -- College days at Cornell University (1919-1923) -- Genetics: the story so far -- Gardening as science -- Monk and scientist: Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) -- Mendel rediscovered -- Fruit fly geneticist: Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) -- Bateson and gene linkage -- Fruit-fly genetics -- When cells divide -- Exploring the genetics of Maize -- Getting started: freedom to work (1923-1927) -- Ten maize chromosomes -- Scientist at work (1927-1931): Cornell cytogenetics group -- McClintock and Creighton team up -- The experiment -- Maize researchers at work -- Publishing the results -- On the road (1931-1936): X-rays in Missouri -- Ring chromosomes -- The nucleolar organizer region -- Cornell: a brief return -- Prewar Germany -- Exodus of scientists: Germany in the 1930s -- Working with the Lion -- the Missouri years (1936-1941): The breakage-fusion-bridge cycle -- In search of a position-- Moving on -- Cold Spring Harbor: a place to work (1942-1992): Continuing the work -- Molecular biology: a powerful approach -- The jumping gene -- Presenting the evidence (1951-1956): Skeptical peers -- DNA: the double helix (1953) -- Persistence and knowing: return to work -- Sojourn in Latin America: the origins of maize -- Reevaluation and recognition: Awards abound in the 1960s and 1970s -- The Nobel Prize -- Why not sooner? -- After the Nobel -- The last years -- Barbara McClintock: personal integrity and solid science: A philosophy made to fit -- Spanning the century -- "I've had such a good time ..."

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Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

6F898A0D-7C50-446F-B423-649B4CCB3836

Title

Barbara McClintock.

International Standard Book Number

9780816061723

McClintock, Barbara,1902-1992

McClintock, Barbara,1902-1992.

McClintock, Barbara,1902-1992.

Geneticists-- United States, Biography, Juvenile literature.

Geneticists-- United States, Biography.

Geneticists.

JUVENILE NONFICTION-- Biography & Autobiography-- Science & Technology.

JUVENILE NONFICTION-- Science & Nature-- General.

United States.

7

JNF-- 007090

JNF-- 051000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Spangenburg, Ray,1939-

Moser, Diane,1944-

Date of Transaction

20201208101035.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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