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BL
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963574
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b717944
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| Main Entry
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Spangenburg, Ray,1939-
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| Title & Author
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Barbara McClintock : : pioneering geneticist /\ Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Chelsea House Publishers,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Makers of modern science
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1 online resource (xxi, 136 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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1438104103
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: 9781438104102
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0816061726
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9780816061723
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-125) and index.
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| Contents
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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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McClintock, Barbara,1902-1992
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McClintock, Barbara,1902-1992.
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McClintock, Barbara,1902-1992.
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Geneticists-- United States, Biography, Juvenile literature.
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Geneticists-- United States, Biography.
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Geneticists.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION-- Biography Autobiography-- Science Technology.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION-- Science Nature-- General.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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576.5092
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| LC Classification
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QH429.2.M38S63 2008eb
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| Added Entry
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Moser, Diane,1944-
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