"As a graduate student, I encountered a book that still inspires me: Classic Papers in Genetics edited by . Sadly, it is now out of print, but it is a wonderful compendium of many groundbreaking papers,starting with Mendel’s ‘Experiments in Plant Hybridization’. It also includes several papers by my scientific hero, , who figured out the principle of as an undergraduate, and whose papers are a model of clarity and careful reasoning. I also really enjoy reading Peters’ prefaces to each paper, which place each work in its scientific and historical context."
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Vivian Irish
(born 1959) is an American professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology and a leading expert on the ABC model of flower development. She was for one academic year from 2012 to 2013 the president of the and in 2023 was elected a Fellow of the .
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