Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock

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Original – Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize winning cell biologist, in her laboratory. She basically discovered a good portion of what you'd learn in any moderately-advanced biology course's module on genetics and chromosomes - genetic recombination, telomeres, centromeres... you get the idea. Fundamentally changed the subject with her discoveries.

Reason

Highly notable person, nice shot of her in action, as it were. Restored this mainly at 400%. Added a little headroom; it's kinda just at the requirement, but the film grain indicates that not much, if any, detail is lost because of that.

Articles in which this image appears

Barbara McClintock +10

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering

Creator

Smithsonian Institution, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:58, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
• Support - Very well posed. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:19, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
• Support - high EV, notable person. --Janke | Talk 07:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
• Support – ditto. Bammesk (talk) 02:06, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Presumably posed, but it conveys the scientist-at-work theme quite well. Sca (talk) 14:33, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 00:09, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
• Support –Rosiestep (talk) 16:22, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Promoted File:Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) shown in her laboratory in 1947.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:43, 16 July 2016 (UTC)