In article <97ljrg$doo$1 at news.uit.no>, "Gerd" <gerdn at ibg.uit.no> wrote:
>Hello.
>I am helping some students writing a paper about famous scientists. The list
>of suggested people contained no single woman. Is there somewere in the
>world a list over: breakthrough experiments done by women, Biological
>litterature written by women, or any other possible text that would be
>helpfull for showing that women have been living on this planet, and are
>doing biological science.
>>Gerd
Gerd-I found a book many years ago about Barbara McClintock called "A
Feeling for the Organism", by Evelyn Fox Keller. McClintock was a plant
geneticist who discovered that genes could rearrange themselves within
chromosomes, the so-called "jumping genes". This was heresy when she
first proposed it, but others eventually confirmed her experiments and she
won the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1983. Also, look up
Gertrude Elion and Rosalind Yalow on the web. Both of these women were
Nobel Prize winners-Yalow in 1977 for development of the radioimmunoassay,
and Elion in 1988 or so.
Cindy
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