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1. mhm.nlm.nih.gov › spotlight › llBiographical Overview | Barbara McClintock - Profiles in Science

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   Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, one of four children of Thomas Henry McClintock and Sara Handy McClintock. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1908. She graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1919.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Barbara-McClintockBarbara McClintock | Nobel Prize-Winning Geneticist | Britannica

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   May 27, 2024 · Barbara McClintock (born June 16, 1902, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.—died September 2, 1992, Huntington, New York) was an American scientist whose discovery in the 1940s and ’50s of mobile genetic elements, or “ jumping genes ,” won her the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983. McClintock, whose father was a physician, took ...

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4. www.nasonline.org › mcclintock-barbaraBarbara McClintock - National Academy of Sciences

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   Courtesy of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK. June 16, 1902–September 2, 1992. BY NINA V. FEDOROFF. B ARBARA McCLINTOCK’S remarkable life spanned the his- tory of genetics in the twentieth century. Though tech-nically rooted in Mendel’s experiments carried out decades earlier, the science of genetics began with the ...

5. www.taylorfrancis.com › books › monoFrom Chromosomes to Mobile Genetic Elements | The Life and ...

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   This biography of Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) places her life and work in its social, scientific and personal context. The author examines the development of Barbara McClintock’s scientific work and her influence upon individuals and upon the fields of cytogenetics and evolutionary biology in the period from 1902 to the present.

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6. www.amazon.com › Feeling-Organism-10th-AniversaryA Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition: The Life ...

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   Feb 15, 1984 · Evelyn Fox Keller's acclaimed biography, A Feeling for the Organism, gives us the full story of McClintock's pioneering―although sometimes professionally difficult―career in cytology and genetics. The book now appears in a special edition marking the 10th anniversary of its original publication.

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Barbara_McClintockBarbara McClintock (illustrator) - Wikipedia

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   Barbara McClintock (born May 6, 1955) is an American illustrator and author of children's books. Background. McClintock was born in Flemington, New Jersey, on May 6, 1955, and spent her early childhood in Clinton, New Jersey. She moved to North Dakota with her mother and sister when she was nine years old.

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   Who is Barbara McClintock?

   • Barbara McClintock (born June 16, 1902, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.—died September 2, 1992, Huntington, New York) was an American scientist whose discovery in the 1940s and ’50s of mobile genetic elements, or “ jumping genes ,” won her the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.

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   When did Barbara McClintock die?

   • Barbara McClintock, 1931 Lived 1902 - 1992. Barbara McClintock made a number of groundbreaking discoveries in genetics. She demonstrated the phenomenon of chromosomal crossover, which increases genetic variation in species.

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   What did Barbara McClintock study?

   • For me, one of Barbara McClintock’s early cytogenetic papers falls in this category— her analysis of the nucleolus of maize published in 1934 in the Zeitschrift für Zellforschung und Mikroskopische Anatomie under the title, “The relation of a particular chromosomal element to the development of the nucleoli in Zea mays.”

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   Why did Barbara McClintock win a Nobel Prize?

   • Yet before DNA and the molecular revolution, Barbara McClintock's tireless analysis of corn led her to uncover some of the deepest, most intricate secrets of genetic organization. Nearly forty years later, her insights would bring her a MacArthur Foundation grant, the Nobel Prize, and long overdue recognition.

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9. www.famousscientists.org › barbara-mcclintockBarbara McClintock - Biography, Facts and Pictures

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   In 1936, age 34, McClintock became an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, where she worked until 1941. A few years earlier, in the summers of 1931 and 1932, McClintock had visited Missouri and learned how to use X-rays to cause mutations in cells. When she returned in 1936, she began using X-rays again.