Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Barbara McClintock - Free to Discover
March 24, 2020
March 24, 2020
COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, March 24 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news on March 23:
Barbara McClintock missed an important call on the morning of October 10, 1983. She had chosen "to be free" of the interruptions that came with owning a telephone, and so it was her students and colleagues who told her that she had received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
"That's nice," she said with little more than a brief . . .
Barbara McClintock missed an important call on the morning of October 10, 1983. She had chosen "to be free" of the interruptions that came with owning a telephone, and so it was her students and colleagues who told her that she had received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
"That's nice," she said with little more than a brief . . .