Barbara McClintock: Alone in Her Field

By Deborah Heiligman

Book Overview

What's it like to make an amazing discovery - and then have nobody believe it? Barbara McClintock knew. In the 1940s, she unlocked some of the deepest secrets about genes and DNA. Yet it took nearly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716765365
• ISBN13: 9780716765363
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Barbara McClintock Alone in Her Field

This is a terrific book! I read it with my 9 year old daughter and 7 year old son. The story describes the personal integrity and strength of Dr. McClintock, both as a child and as a adult. It describes the difficulty of a girl in the 1920's who doesn't aspire to be a docile, married, domestic woman. As an adult, she is intellectually brilliant but has difficulty getting recognition for her discoveries. Thirty years after her most significant discovery, she receives a Nobel Prize for it. The books reads well, lets the reader feel the emotion of McClintock's difficulties AND gives an indepth enough explanation of her genetic research so my 9 year old could understand it and want to know more about it. It was not condescending - didn't oversimplify the concepts.