brown@rochester.UUCP (10/10/83)
Congratulations, girls! You've come a long way, baby.
kmw@iheds.UUCP (10/11/83)
In response to: > Congratulations, girls! > You've come a long way, baby. Oh, dear. Apparently not far enough. I am quite a few years beyond being a "girl," and quite a few more beyond being a "baby." I'm also not quite sure why one woman's Nobel prize is a reason to congratulate women in general. I congratulate HER. I'm sure the comments were well-intentioned, but my reaction was rather flat. - K. Wilber (iheds!kmw)
kfk@ccieng2.UUCP (10/12/83)
Recently posted here: Congratulations, girls! You've come a long way, baby. Boy! Do you *like* to get hate mail? It doesn't seem to me to be a recommended idea to announce "Congratulations, GIRLS" in net.WOMEN. Karl Kleinpaste
seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (10/12/83)
OK, troups, we've had (at least) two articles about some
woman that won a Nobel prize. Question 1: does this person
have a name? Question 2: What did she win her prize *for* ?
Remember, not everyone watches the ten o'clock news.
As for as 'coming a long way, baby', surely this isn't the
first time a female won the Nobel Prize, is it? If so,
it's the Nobel commitee that has made the progress, women
have been making significant contributions to mankind for
a *long* time.
Dave Seifert
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Dave Seifert
ihnp4!ihuxl!seifertalle@ihuxb.UUCP (10/13/83)
The name of the woman who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine is Barbara McClintock. She is the first woman to ever win the Nobel Prize in Medicine alone. Two other women have won Nobel's on their own - Marie Curie (French) in 1911 and Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin (British) in 1964. They both won for Chemistry. Two women have shared the prize in medicine with men: Rosalyn Yalow in 1977 and Theresa Cori in 1947 (both Americans). Dr. McClintock won her prize for her discovery that genetic changes can be caused when bits of genetic material rearranged themselves (she discovered this in corn plants). This contradicted some of the basic assumptions of genetics, that is, genes were arranged on chromosomes in fixed patterns. She reported her findings in 1951 and was met with silence. /* Excerpted from AP */ Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxb!alle
ariels@orca.UUCP (10/13/83)
The woman who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (this is the full title of the prize) is 81 yr old Dr. Barbara McClintock. She is the first woman to win this prize unshared, and the third woman to win any Nobel Prize unshared. The other two were Marie Curie in 1911, Dorothy Hodgekin in 1964, both for Chemistry. Dr. McClintock won the prize for her work forty years ago on "jumping genes" in corn. These are genes that move from one cell to another and thereby change the genetic information in the cells. Her work was considered heretical at the time by the scientific establishment. This is a general explanation that I gleaned from Tuesday's Oregonian last night, so the details of the research may be wrong. Anyway, that's the scoop. Ariel Shattan decvax!tektronix!tekecs!ariels
rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (10/17/83)
Perhaps not the first, but at least one of the earliest women to be awarded a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, for the discovery (isolation) of radium. Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611 Bell Labs, Naperville, Ill.
quark@dartvax.UUCP (10/20/83)
in case no one has mentioned it yet, Curie (also?) won a Nobel prize in physics.