Geneticist Barbara McClintock in The Daring Book for Girls

by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei
Posted November 12, 2007 in DNA Podcasts and Videos, Personalities with DNA

Recently published, The Daring Book for Girls included Barbara McClintock, winner of The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983, in the chapter on A Short History of Women Inventors and Scientists (excerpted at Neatorama).

1983 1993 [editor's note: not sure what this year refers to since Dr. McClintock died in 1992]

Barbara McClintock, an American scientist and cytogeneticist, becomes the first woman to win, unshared, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her discovery of a genetic mechanism called transposition.

Earlier this year, I read out loud Dr. McClintock’s Nobel Prize banquet speech for this podcast. Click the play button to listen.

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Update: Author Andi Buchanan wrote to say that it’s 1983 in the book and 1993 was a typo at Neatorama.

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