The Barbara McClintock Papers

Title:

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt and Evelyn Stern

Description:

In this letter to the noted German scientist and his wife-who left Germany for America shortly after Hitler's rise to power-McClintock explained that she left the lab in Berlin to complete her Guggenheim fellowship with Friedrich Oehlkers in Freiburg. She found Nazi Berlin miserable and Freiburg a more enjoyable locale for a foreign scientist.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (110,563 Bytes)

Date:

1934-03-04 (March 4, 1934)

Creator:

McClintock, Barbara

Recipient:

Stern, Curt

Stern, Evelyn

Source:

Original Repository: American Philosophical Society. Library. Curt Stern Papers

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Curt Stern Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Exhibit Category:

From Ithaca to Berlin and Back Again, 1931-1935

Relation:

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt Stern (March 13, 1933)

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt Stern (April 19, 1933)

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt Stern (August 12, 1933)

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt and Evelyn Stern [11 December 1934?]

Box Number: 3

Folder Number: 2

Unique Identifier:

LLBBMJ

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2006-05-03

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