When reading chapters five through
eight of the feeling for the organism, I found McClintock’s attitude very
interesting. McClintock obviously shows
emotion regarding her work. She is very
passionate about finding the right answers to the questions she is asking. McClintock
was contacted by George Beadle to visit his lab at Stanford. After McClintock agreed to visit Stanford,
she helped research on Neurospora. Beadle was stuck so McClintock attempted to
get the small chromosomes, however she kept getting it wrong. She said that she went for a walk to take a
break and sat under a group of trees.
While she was there McClintock shed some tears, and back to the
lab. This obviously shows a sign of
passion for her work. Any scientist that
get upset enough over their work that they show their emotions that way are
passionate about their work. Passion is
one of the key character traits to being a successful scientist, and I believe
this is one reason that McClintock was so successful.
McClintock’s
struggle with funding, job placement and fear of being locked into a position
is very relatable compared to many of the other scientists talked about in
class. She is from a different time period
than scientists like Darwin, who didn’t necessarily worry about money. I would like to see, given a secure economic
place, and job placement, if McClintock’s findings would have been even more
numerous than they already are.
Her attention to
detail also stood out to me. McClintock
refused to delegate her more mundane work to assistants because she did not
want any observation to be missed. I
believe this detail oriented mindset is an essential trait of a good scientist.
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