Nathaniel C. Comfort
Encyclopedia
Nathaniel C. Comfort is an American
historian specialising in the history of biology. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
, and he previously was employed in the history department at The George Washington University. He is currently working on the history of human and medical genetics
in America.
Comfort is best known for his 2001 biography of Barbara McClintock
, The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. He has published several journal articles on the same topic, and was widely praised for his reinterpretation of the response to McClintock's work on controlling elements.
Comfort was married to Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize
for Physiology or Medicine.
United States
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historian specialising in the history of biology. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, and he previously was employed in the history department at The George Washington University. He is currently working on the history of human and medical genetics
Medical genetics
Medical genetics is the specialty of medicine that involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical genetics differs from Human genetics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to medicine, but medical genetics refers to the...
in America.
Comfort is best known for his 2001 biography of Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics...
, The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. He has published several journal articles on the same topic, and was widely praised for his reinterpretation of the response to McClintock's work on controlling elements.
Comfort was married to Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
for Physiology or Medicine.
Publications
- The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. Harvard University Press, 2001
- (Ed.) The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007