Barbara McClintock’s Nobel Prize Banquet Speech
Out of 768 Nobel Prizes that have been awarded to date, only 33 have been to women. One of the recipients was Barbara McClintock who received The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of mobile genetic elements aka jumping genes. I found her banquet speech particularly touching and inspiring since she alludes to what it was like to be excluded from scientific society because her ideas were too radical. Unfortunately, no recording of her speech is available at the Nobel Prize website, so I’ve recorded it myself in a podcast that lasts just over 2 minutes.
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3 opinions for Barbara McClintock’s Nobel Prize Banquet Speech
starla lynch
Oct 28, 2007 at 5:25 pm
IT IS WONDERFUL
Dr Robert Rothman
Mar 23, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Wasn’t she the one that was emotionally attached to her corn?
Emelinta Benjimon
Apr 10, 2008 at 8:15 pm
hey wow you really are smart i just wish i would be just like you guys welll in my future i want to go college so i could be just like you guys.
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