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Female Entomologists and Herpetologists
Name: Amy
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Question:
How would I go about finding
articles or information about women in these fields? My daughter
has a classmate who seems to think that girls can't like bugs and lizards.
Replies:
Amy, do a search for articles on Christiane Nusslein-Volhard. She is
a German scientist who studies friut flies. In 1995, she shared the
Nobel prize for her work on flies. She studied how patterning takes
place, i.e., how you start with one egg, and end up with an organism
with a head at one end, a tail at the other, etc. Many of her findings
have been extended to other organisms, including humans. She is an
interesting woman, who is still active in research. Here is a link to
a brief autobiography:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1995/nusslein-volhard-autobio.html
Paul Mahoney, PhD
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