The Tangled Field : : Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control / / Nathaniel C. Comfort.
This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of chromosomes, was regarded as a genius and as an unorthodo...
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Comfort, Nathaniel C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Tangled Field : Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control / Nathaniel C. Comfort. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2001 1 online resource (357 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Myth -- 2 Freedom -- 3 Integration -- 4 Pattern -- 5 Control -- 6 Complexity -- 7 Reception -- 8 Response -- 9 Renaissance -- 10 Synthesis -- Appendix: A Molecular Epilogue -- Notes -- Interviews -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of chromosomes, was regarded as a genius and as an unorthodox, nearly incomprehensible thinker. In 1946, she discovered mobile genetic elements, which she called "controlling elements." Thirty-seven years later, she won a Nobel Prize for this work, becoming the third woman to receive an unshared Nobel in science. Since then, McClintock has become an emblem of feminine scientific thinking and the tragedy of narrow-mindedness and bias in science. Using McClintock's research notes, newly available correspondence, and dozens of interviews with McClintock and others, Comfort argues that McClintock's work was neither ignored in the 1950s nor wholly accepted two decades later. Nor was McClintock marginalized by scientists; throughout the decades of her alleged rejection, she remained a distinguished figure in her field. Comfort replaces the "McClintock myth" with a new story, rich with implications for our understanding of women in science and scientific creativity. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029828?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674029828 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674029828/original |
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