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The Barbara McClintock Papers

Further Readings

[Barbara McClintock in lab with maize]. April 1963.
Web Resources

Nobel Web AB. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983. The Nobel Foundation. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1983/

Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. 1981 Winner Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. The Lasker Foundation. http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1981basic.htm


Manuscript Collections

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archive. Cold Spring Harbor, New York. http://library.cshl.edu/archives/

American Philosophical Society Library. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d-1.htm


Books

Comfort, Nathaniel C. The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Fine, Edith Hope. Barbara McClintock: Nobel Prize Geneticist. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998.

McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1998.

Craig, Patricia Parratt. Jumping Genes: Barbara McClintock's Scientific Legacy: An Essay About Basic Research from the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1994.

Federoff, Nina, and David Borstein, eds. The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas in the Century of Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1992.

Dash, Joan. The Triumph of Discovery: Women Scientists Who Won the Nobel Prize. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Julian Messner, 1991.

McClintock, Barbara. The Discovery and Characterization of Transposable Elements: The Collected Papers of Barbara McClintock. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.

Keller, Evelyn Fox. A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1983.


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