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We recently discussed the Nobel Prize-winning work of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, University of Chicago, Ilbois, and William A. Fowler, the 1983 laureates in physics, and that of chemistry prizewinner Henry Taube. 1 We will now review the award in physiology or medicine to Barbara McClintock. The next and final portion of the essay will focus on the winners in economics and literature. We have dkcussed the work of each laureate since 1979. Our purpose in doing so is not only to d~cover whether or not citation analysis vefiles the selections of the Nobel committee. We are also interested in emphasizing the role of scientflc literature in understanding the discovery process. To help us demonstrate more concretely the impact of the prizewinners’ research, we include ISP’s unique research-front data. In our discussion of the fronts influenced by Chandrasekhar, cited above, we inadvertently included a paper by his cousin, Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, of the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India. A correction notice appears at the end of thii essay. Since we began work on this essay, the 1984 Nobel Prizes have been announced. The award in physiology or medicine was shared by Cesar Milst ein, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, England, and Georges J.F. Kohler and Neils K. Jerne, both of the Basel Institute of Immunology, Switzerland.2 They received the award for their work on monoclinal antibodies. The impact of their classic papes% wilf be discussed later ths year. February 18, 1985