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Leslie Margaret <I>Collard</I> Barnett

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Leslie Margaret Collard Barnett

Birth
London, City of London, Greater London, England
Death
10 Feb 2002 (aged 81)
Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Burial
Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map
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A British biologist who worked with Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Richard J. Watts-Tobin to genetically demonstrate the triplet nature of the code of protein translation through the Crick, Brenner, Barnett, Watts-Tobin et al. experiment of 1961, which discovered frameshift mutations; this insight provided early elucidation of the nature of the genetic code.

In her professional life, Barnett was a microbiologist who joined the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where she worked as an assistant mainly with Crick and later Brenner, with whom she remained for many years until he left and she retired. During this long period Leslie Barnett was involved in a number of the important advances made in molecular biology and genetics; she witnessed the many technological and scientific advances made during the last century, some very important ones which she herself had contributed to.

She was the mother of Penny and Marion Barnett.
A British biologist who worked with Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Richard J. Watts-Tobin to genetically demonstrate the triplet nature of the code of protein translation through the Crick, Brenner, Barnett, Watts-Tobin et al. experiment of 1961, which discovered frameshift mutations; this insight provided early elucidation of the nature of the genetic code.

In her professional life, Barnett was a microbiologist who joined the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where she worked as an assistant mainly with Crick and later Brenner, with whom she remained for many years until he left and she retired. During this long period Leslie Barnett was involved in a number of the important advances made in molecular biology and genetics; she witnessed the many technological and scientific advances made during the last century, some very important ones which she herself had contributed to.

She was the mother of Penny and Marion Barnett.

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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99704680/leslie_margaret-barnett: accessed ), memorial page for Leslie Margaret Collard Barnett (12 Oct 1920–10 Feb 2002), Find a Grave Memorial ID 99704680, citing Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Maintained by stevenkh1 (contributor 47175148).