Evelyn Maisel Witkin Ph.D.

National Medal of Science - Biological Science 2002

Zoologist - Molecular Geneticist. E. coli. DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair. Interests: Science education in public schools; Connections between contemporary Victorians poet Robert Browning and Charles Darwin.

Essentially same grant from 1956 until retirement in 1991.

Thesis

Title:

Genetics of Resistance to Radiation in EScherichia Coli

Author:

Evelyn Maisel Witkin

Publisher:

Columbia Univ., 1947

Length:

248 pages

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Name: Evelyn Maisel Witkin
Birth: 9 March 1921 New York City
Title: Barbara McClintock Professor Emerita
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Citation: "For her insightful and pioneering investigations on the genetics of DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair that have increased our understanding of processes as varied as evolution and the development of cancer." Presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on November 6, 2003
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