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Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927.
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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Barbara McClintock was a pioneer in the field of cytogenetics, and she left a lasting legacy of superb experimental inquiry. McClintock’s breeding experiments with maize are particularly notable...
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In 1944, she became the third woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She was the first woman to become president of the Genetics Society of America, to which she was elected in 1945. In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon awarded McClintock the National Medal of Science.
Sep 2, 1992 · Barbara McClintock was a Nobel prize-winning plant geneticist, whose multiple discoveries in maize have changed our understanding of genetics. Born in Connecticut in 1902, McClintock began...
But Barbara McClintock knew better. McClintock dedicated her life to studying corn, and by doing so shaped our fundamental understanding of the possibility of changes in the human genome.
Barbara McClintock’s Final Years as Nobelist and Mentor: A Memoir. September 2, 2017, marks the 25 th year after the passing of Dr. Barbara McClintock, geneticist and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of transposable elements in maize.
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