Title:

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt and Evelyn Stern

Creator:

McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992

Recipient:

Stern, Evelyn and Stern, Curt, 1902-1981

Date:

4 March 1934

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.

Original Repository:

The American Philosophical Society. Library. Curt Stern Papers

Location:

Box: 3. Folder: 2

Rights:

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

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt Stern, 1933
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt Stern, 1933
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt Stern, 1933
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt and Evelyn Stern, 1934

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. American Philosophical Society. Library. Curt Stern Papers. 10847

Legacy ID:

LLBBMJ

NLM ID:

101584613X195

Profiles Collection:

The Barbara McClintock Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584613X195

Story Section:

From Ithaca to Berlin and Back Again, 1931-1935