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Harriet Baldwin Creighton (27 de xunu de 1909, Illinois – 9 de xineru de 2004) foi una botánica, xenetista, y educadora d'Estaos Xuníos.
Harriet Creighton | |
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| Vida | |
| Nacimientu | Illinois, 27 de xunu de 1909[1] |
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 Estaos Xuníos |
| Muerte | 9 de xineru de 2004[1] (94 años) |
| Estudios | |
| Estudios |
Universidá Cornell Wellesley College (es)  Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (en) |
| Llingües falaes | inglés[2] |
| Oficiu | xenetista, botánica, taxónoma, profesora universitaria, escritora de ciencia |
| Emplegadores | Universidá Cornell |
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Nacida en Delavan, Illinois, graduar pola Wellesley College en 1929, y completó la so Ph.D. pola Universidá Cornell en 1933. Mientres el so tiempu en Cornell, trabayó nel campu de la citoxenética de maíz, con Barbara McClintock, y dambes publicaron un artículu bien influyente en 1931, describiendo entrecruzamiento cromosómico per primer vegada. Esi papel, parte de la so investigación de Ph.D. apurrió la evidencia dominante que los cromosomes llevaron ya intercambiaron la información xenética y polo tanto que los "xenes" pa les traces físiques son llevaos en cromosomes. La so asesora foi Barbara McClintock que guio les sos investigaciones de Ph.D.[3]
Dempués de completar el so Ph.D. enseñó na Universidá Cornell y nel Connecticut College, y depués tornó a Wellesley onde enseñó hasta'l so xubilación en 1974; tomó tiempu de la so carrera pa sirvir na marina de guerra de EE. XX. mientres la segunda guerra mundial.[3][4]
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- "Harriet Creighton, long-time professor of botany, dies" Wellesley Wire, 29 de xineru de 2004 Archiváu 2012-07-17 en Wayback Machine;
- Kass, Lee (2005) "Harriet B. Creighton: Proud Botanist" Plant Science Bulletin 51(4): 118-125;
- Kass, Lee B. 2005c. Harriet B. Creighton: Proud botanist. Plant Science Bulletin. 51(4): 118-125. Available online, December 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20131004012334/http://www.botany.org/plantsciencebulletin/psb-2005-51-4.php#HARRIET
- Kass, L. B.; Chomet, P. 2009. Barbara McClintock, p. 17-52, in J. Bennetzen and S. Hake, Editors, Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics. Springer.
- Kass, Lee B. 2007a. Harriet B. Creighton (1909-2004), on Women Pioneers in Plant Biology, Am. Soc. of Plant Biologists website, Ann Hirsch editor. online, febreru de 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20031203235101/http://www.aspb.org/committees/women/pioneers.cfm#Creighton
- Kass, Lee B. 2007b. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), on Women Pioneers in Plant Biology, Am. Soc. of Plant Biologists website, Ann Hirsch editor. online, marzu de 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20031203235101/http://www.aspb.org/committees/women/pioneers.cfm#McClintock
- "Creighton, Harriet: American Botanist 1909-" Bookrags, Macmillan Science Library: Plant Sciences;
- Kalte, Pamela M. and Nemeh, Katherine H. (2005) "Creighton, Harriet Baldwin (1909-)" American Men & Women of Science: A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences (22ª ed.) Thomson Gale, Detroit;
- McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (1998) Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries Carol Publishing Group, New Jersey;
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