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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

by Evelyn Fox Keller, Benoit B. Mandelbrot · 1983

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A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains her work in genetics and traces her long unheralded career as a research scientist.

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medium · 235 pages

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