A Comic Genius
Science Seen | A Comic Genius Courtesy of The American Philosophical Society Lab picnics can be notoriously unfun affairs--the same faces, the same conversations, the same everything, save for the venue and missing white lab coats. That expectation, perhaps, makes photos like this all the more special: geneticist Barbara McClintock, in this photo from the 1980s, doing her best Groucho impression. function sendData() { document.frm.pathName.value = location.pathname; result =
The Scientist Staff
Dec 14, 2003
Science Seen | A Comic Genius
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