Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Integrative Biography of Barbara McClintock and Transposable Elements

博士论文研究：芭芭拉·麦克林托克和转座元件的综合传记

• 批准号: 9632708
• 负责人: Ruth Cowan
• 金额: $ 0.86万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-15 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9632708&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Integrative; Biography

This project will construct an integrative biography of Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock to help teachers of the history of science communicate McClintock's work to students, and to help clarify the role of gender in the practice of science and the development of scientific knowledge. Rather than be seen within the context of a gendered model of scientific thought which unfairly robs her of agency, McClintock will be seen as a transition figure in the shift from turn of the century natural history to modern molecular genetics. Moreover, the project seeks to examine many new sources that have become available. These include McClintocks' laboratory notebooks and the 3 by 5 cards on which she recorded her genetic crosses; her experimental material, correspondence, and a festschrift produced for her 90th birthday in 1992. Interviews with her colleagues and friends, supplemented by the festschrift will frame a composite sketch of the reception of transposons and a portrait of McClintock as a woman and scientist.

本计画将建构诺贝尔奖得主芭芭拉·麦克林托克的综合传记，以协助科学史教师向学生传达麦克林托克的工作，并协助厘清性别在科学实践和科学知识发展中的角色。 麦克林托克将被视为从世纪自然史向现代分子遗传学转变的过渡人物，而不是被视为不公平地剥夺了她的代理权的科学思想的性别模型的背景下。此外，该项目还寻求审查许多新的可用资源。 这些包括麦克林托克的实验室笔记本和她记录遗传杂交的3 × 5卡片;她的实验材料，信件，以及1992年为她90岁生日制作的纪念册。采访她的同事和朋友，辅之以festschrift将框架的合成草图的接收转座子和麦克林托克的肖像作为一个女人和科学家。