The Tangled Field : Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control / Nathaniel C. Comfort.
Comfort, Nathaniel C., author.
2022
QH429.2.M38 ǂb C66 2003eb
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Title The Tangled Field : Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control / Nathaniel C. Comfort.
Author Comfort, Nathaniel C., author.
ISBN 9780674029828
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029828
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2001
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (357 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674029828 doi
Call Number QH429.2.M38 ǂb C66 2003eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 576.5092
Summary 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.
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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

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