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

该项目将构建一本诺贝尔奖获得者芭芭拉·麦克林托克的综合传记，以帮助科学史教师向学生传达麦克林托克的工作，并帮助澄清性别在科学实践和科学知识发展中的作用。麦克林托克将被视为从世纪之交的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代理机构的性别科学思想模型的背景。此外，该项目还试图检查许多已有的新来源。其中包括麦克林托克斯的实验室笔记本和她用来记录基因杂交的3x5卡片；她的实验材料、信件，以及1992年她90岁生日时制作的一张拼图。对她的同事和朋友的采访，加上这次盛大的裂痕，将构成一幅关于转座子接受情况的合成素描，以及一幅麦克林托克作为女性和科学家的肖像。

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.