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People of Science with Brian Cox - Dame Ottoline Leyser on Barbara McClintock

4 mins watch 05 January 2020

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Ottoline Leyser talks to Brian Cox about her admiration for Nobel Prize winning geneticist, Barbara McClintock and explains the two great principles she uncovered.

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