A Feeling for the Organism The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock,9780716715047

A Feeling for the Organism The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

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ISBN13: 9780716715047
ISBN10: 071671504X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1984-02-15
Publisher(s): W. H. Freeman
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Summary

A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains her work in genetics and traces her long unheralded career as a research scientist

Author Biography

Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor of History and Philosophy in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at M.I.T.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi(6)
Preface xvii(8)
Acknowledgements xxv
Chapter 1 An Historical Overview
1(14)
Chapter 2 The Capacity to Be Alone
15(24)
Chapter 3 Becoming a Scientist
39(24)
Chapter 4 A Career for Women
63(16)
Chapter 5 1936-1941: University of Missouri
79(10)
Chapter 6 Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain
89(18)
Chapter 7 Cold Spring Harbor
107(14)
Chapter 8 Transposition
121(18)
Chapter 9 A Different Language
139(14)
Chapter 10 Molecular Biology
153(18)
Chapter 11 Transposition Rediscovered
171(26)
Chapter 12 A Feeling for the Organism
197(12)
Notes 209(12)
Glossary 221(8)
Index 229

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