API Governance and Monetization - The evolution of API governance
Barbara mcclintock
1. the McClintocks sent Barbara off to live with relatives in the country, where she lived on and
off until she was of school age. It was here that she developed the deep love of nature that
lasted her lifetime. In 1908, the family moved to the Flatbush section of Brooklyn where her
father had taken a job with Standard Oil. McClintock rejoined the family and attended the
local school. Her love of nature, however, persisted.
Cornell University as a biology major in the College of Agriculture. was appointed an
instructor in Cornell's botany department. It was during the decade of the 1940s that she
began the work which was later to result in the Nobel Prize
Essentially, it was her discovery that genes "jumped" from place to place in a chromosome,
what she called transposable genetic elements. As one colleague put it, "she has a feeling
for the organism."
The rediscovery of McClintock's work began in the mid-1960s with the study of aspects of
bacteria and became unavoidable in the 1980s with the growth of genetic engineering. In
1981 she was awarded the prestigious Wolfe Prize in Medicine for her work, as well as the
Lasker Award. The MacArthur Foundation appointed her its first Prize Fellow Laureate; then
in 1983 she received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
"burning curiosity, enthusiasm and uncompromising honesty serve as a constant reminder
of what drew us all to science in the first place." In 1996 Cold Spring Harbor's DNA Learning
Center held an exhibit in her honor featuring a replica of her original 1942 laboratory.
Barbara McClintock worked with cellular and sub-cellular life and its denouement in the
adult plant. She was able to view chromosomes and even their components and
determine their effect upon the adult corn plant, which allowed her to visualize genes
before the name "gene" was known. McClintock published her work thirty years before it
was generally acknowledged and accepted. Today biologists can learn from her life the
need for courage and the ability to "go at it alone" when necessary.
