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Sep 2, 1992 · The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983. Born: 16 June 1902, Hartford, CT, USA. Died: 2 September 1992, Huntington, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements”. Prize share: 1/1.
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Awards and recognition for her contributions to the field followed, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to her in 1983 for the discovery of genetic transposition; as of 2023, she remains the only woman who has received an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.
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Mar 22, 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.
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However, the role of transposons eventually became widely appreciated, and McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983 in recognition of this and her many other contributions to the field...
Sep 2, 1992 · 16 June 1902 – 2 September 1992. Nobel prize-winning plant geneticist. By Penny Sarchet. Barbara McClintock. Smithsonian Institution Archives. Barbara McClintock was a Nobel...
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