The Dynamic genome

"Barbara McClintock was born in 1902, within a few years of the rediscovery of Mendel's Laws. Her life, discoveries, and insights span the history of genetic science in this century." "In the 1920s, she became a dominant figure in the group that flourished at Cornell University under R.A. Emerson and made remarkable technical conceptual advances in maize cytogenetics. These studies continued at the California Institute of Technology, in Freiburg, Germany, and at the University of Missouri. In 1942, she joined the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Cold Spring Harbor, New Yor...