What Charlotte’s experiments did do was show
that mustard gas was an alkylating agent, a
mutagen that causes substitution mutations.
Shortly after the end of World War II and after
persevering through burns caused by hot mustard
gas, Auerbach published her findings. At
last, she received the recognition and respect
her work warranted. Charlotte Auerbach went
on to have a long and highly successful career
in genetics. She stopped working only after old
age robbed her of her sight. She died in
Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1994 at the age of 95.
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