Harriet B. Creighton

Harriet Baldwin Creighton (born June 27, 1909 in Delevan , Illinois , † January 9, 2004 ) was an American biologist and professor of botany and genetics. Creighton studied at Wellesley College until 1929 and received his PhD from Cornell University in 1933 . As part of her dissertation in 1931, she and Barbara McClintock explained the process of crossing-over .

After receiving her PhD, she taught at Cornell University and Connecticut College . She then taught again in Wellesley until her retirement in 1974.

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• "Harriet Creighton, long-time professor of botany, dies," Wellesley Wire , January 29, 2004 ( July 17, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive );
• Kass, Lee (2005) "Harriet B. Creighton: Proud Botanist" Plant Science Bulletin 51 (4): pp. 118-125 ( Memento of April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive );
• "Creighton, Harriet: American Botanist 1909-" Bookrags, Macmillan Science Library: Plant Sciences ;
• Creighton, HB and McClintock, B. (1931): A Correlation of Cytological and Genetical Crossing-Over in Zea Mays . In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Vol. 17, pp. 492-497. PMID 16587654
• Kalte, Pamela M. and Nemeh, Katherine H. (2005) "Creighton, Harriet Baldwin (1909-)" American Men & Women of Science: A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences (22nd ed.) Thomson Gale, Detroit;
• McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (1998) Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. Carol Publishing Group, New Jersey;