MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1927-1991
Abstract:
The maize geneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) is credited with the discovery of "jumping genes," that is chromosomal "crossing over" and translocation. She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983.
The collection is organized into six series: I. Correspondence, 1931-1991; II. Subject files, 1938-1989; III. Works by McClintock, 1944-1989; IV. Works by others, 1927-1991; V. Research notes, notebooks, and card files, 1930s-1990s ; VI. Photographs, 1928-1991.
Call #:
Mss.Ms.Coll.79
Extent:
70.5 Linear feet
Subjects:
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Bacterial genetics | Bacteriophage and viral genetics | Beadle, George Wells | Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989 | Bibliographical matters | Biographical and personal data | Blumenschein, Almiro | Brenner, Sydney | Brown, W. L. (William L.) | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Nobel Prize | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Presidential medal | Corn -- Genetics. | Crick, Francis H. C. | Crossing over (Genetics) | Cytogenetics | Demerec, Milislav | Drosophila genetics | Educational matters | Evolution | Fellowships, assistantships | Fellowships, assistantships -- Guggenheim | Genetics | Genetics of plants | Graduate study | Hershey, Alfred Day | History of biology, especially genetics | History of biology, especially genetics -- Carnegie Institution of Washington | Honors -- Nobel Prize | Invitations | Kato Yamakake, Takeo Angel | Laboratory notebooks | Laboratory notes | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lantern slides | Lectures | Lectures, public speaking | Lederberg, Joshua | Maize -- Genetics | Mangelsdorf, Paul C. | McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992 | Molecular genetics | National Medal of Science | National Science Foundation | Nobel Prizes | Peterson, Peter Andrew, 1925- | Photonegatives | Photoprints | Plant genetics | Publication | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Nobel Prize | Radiation genetics | Recommendations | Research support | Research support -- Rockefeller Foundation | Shapiro, James Allen | Sharp, Lester W. (Lester Whyland) | Solicitations for support or contribution | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Teaching | Translocation (Genetics). | Travel -- Brazil | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- South America | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Wallace, Bruce | Watson, James D. | Wolf Foundation Prize | Women botanists | Women geneticists | Women in science | Women scientists | Zea (maize) genetics
