Barbara McClintock, perhaps? There's a book written about her *A Feeling for the Organism* or some such. Evelyn Fox Keller wrote it.
frances
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Prashanth Mundkur wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Daniel wrote:
>
> > boddhisatva: "Look, the woman biologist who proposed that mitochondria and
> > chloroplasts developed from an endosymbiotic relationship was mocked
> > openly by her male colleagues in a very sexist way."
> >
> > I remember reading something about her, and would like to know more. Do you
> > remember her name?
>