Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock's life work was understanding maize genetics. Early in her career, she was among the first to describe crossing over during meiosis in plants. At the peak of her career, she realized that genes were not immobile on the chromosomes, but could move and rearrange themselves with startling consequences. Afterwards, she was propelled from obscurity to an unwanted degree of celebrity. This site, run by the Nobel e-Museum contains the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 Press Release, Barbara McClintock's Autobiography, her Nobel Lecture, images of her Swedish Nobel Stamp, and an in memoriam essay by Howard Green.
Similar biographies are available for many Nobel Laureates.
Some chapters are still coming online. This book was produced by the Biophysical Society. The Institute of Botany, University of Basel has made 4,341 images of plants, vegetation and pollinators available via searchable database. A very comprehensive set of images is accessible using their convenient web-interfaced search engine. Most images were taken by H. Schneider.