Barbara McClintock

Nobel Lecture

The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge

Barbara McClintock held her Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1983, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. She was presented by Professor Nils Ringertz, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge

Barbara McClintock held her Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1983, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Nils Ringertz, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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