Jacqueline Barton
Jacqueline Barton · Science & Medicine
Chemist who discovered electron charge transport along the DNA double helix.
1952, New York City, United States
United States
Jacqueline Barton is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Chemist who discovered electron charge transport along the DNA double helix.
Jacqueline Barton is a Caltech chemist who discovered that electrons can travel long distances along the stacked bases of the DNA double helix, revealing DNA as a molecular wire with implications for DNA damage sensing, repair and biosensing. She received the National Medal of Science and the Priestley Medal. Her mother was a Belgian Jew who fled the Nazi advance to England and then the United States, and Barton was raised in that Jewish family.
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Chemist who discovered electron charge transport along the DNA double helix.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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