Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Barbara McClintock

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[edit] Barbara McClintock

Biography for one of the stand out scientists from the 20th century. Written by me, but it has also been though peer review and informal review by other editors. Sadly, when you read the fine print for the National Library of Medicine, there are no free images of her, so appropriate fair use images are included.--nixie 12:25, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

  • Support. Impressive article. Interesting that her mother was right ;-) --Martyman-(talk) 12:42, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. Excellent encyclopedic article. One request: can you give the reader a way to follow up on this sentence: Nowadays, Ac/Ds is used as a tool in plant biology to generate mutant plants used for the characterization of gene function. Congratulations on this job. Jkelly 02:06, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
    • I've indluded an external link that explains how Ac/Ds and other transposons are used as mutagens- I don't really want to go into detail in the article as it is a bit of a detour.--nixie 03:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Support: Not too difficult for the layman, and it steers clear of some of the rumor-based biographical material. There are a few commas that need to be cut or added, but I'll leave that to the authors, as they don't make the prose misleading. Geogre 13:02, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. Excellent job. I support this. Linuxbeak | Talk 00:22, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
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