Open AccessBarbara McClintock’s Final Years as Nobelist and Mentor: A Memoir
Author(s) -
Paul Chomet,
Rob Martienssen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.040
Subject(s) - biology , memoir , genetics , art history , history
September 2, 2017, marks the 25 h year after the passing of Dr. Barbara McClintock, geneticist and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of transposable elements in maize. This memoir focuses on the last years of her life-after the prize-and includes personal recollections of how she mentored young scientists and inspired the age of genetics, epigenetics, and genomics.
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