Barbara McClintock began her career as a maize cytogeneticist. Each centre is represented by an experienced clinical geneticist and a senior molecular cytogeneticist. He was a cytogeneticist and applied cytogenetics to oncology. Form and Function by Autoevolution is a 1988 book on evolution by cytogeneticist A. Lima-de-Faria. His father Jacob was an astrophysicist, and his mother, Meira Diskin, was a cytogeneticist. For this she received the 2014 Distinguished Cytogeneticist Award from the American Cytogenetics Conference.