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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.
McClintock and the Origins of Cytogenetics. Barbara McClintock began her scientific career at Cornell University, where she pioneered the study of cytogenetics-a new field in the 1930s-using...
Sep 2, 1992 · Barbara McClintock was a Nobel prize-winning plant geneticist, whose multiple discoveries in maize have changed our understanding of genetics.
In 1983, at the age of 81, she received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on "mobile genetic elements," that is, for her discovery of genetic transposition. McClintock was the first woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.
May 4, 2005 · Barbara McClintock. Celebrating a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist. Barbara Mcclintock’s experimental corn gardens yielded crucial clues about the plant’s genetic material. In 1929, she became the first person to identify all ten maize chromosomes.
By Studying Corn, Barbara McClintock Unlocked the Secrets of Life. A look through a historic microscope helps explain what we all owe the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Jennifer Doudna....
Aug 1, 2003 · BARBARA McClintock (1902-1992), one of the foremost women scientists in twentieth-century America, is most noted for her pioneering research on transposable elements in maize, for which she was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
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