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Laureates Explore About. Throughout her career, Barbara McClintock studied the cytogenetics of maize, making discoveries so far beyond the understanding of the time that other scientists essentially ignored her work for more than a decade. But she persisted, trusting herself and the evidence under her microscope.
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 ...
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. There she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her ...
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- Gender Discrimination?
McClintock was born in 1902 in Hartford, CT. Her father was a homeopathic doctor whose parents emigrated to America from Britain, and her mother was a housewife, poet, and artist from an upper-middle-class Bostonian family. Growing up, McClintock, one of four children, liked being alone, often reading by herself in an empty room for hours. Her comf...
In 1941, McClintock took up a research position at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island and later became a permanent faculty member there, becoming known for her tenacity. My favorite story about McClintock is the one about her telling off a group of students – including a young James Watson, one of the scientists who would go on to discover the doubl...
McClintock’s profound discovery was dismissed by her male colleagues for years. In the book A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, Evelyn Fox Keller paints this as gender discrimination, putting her late recognition down to the fact that she was a woman. This a story we hear a lot. Watson and Crick vs Rosalind Franklin...
Barbara McClintock. 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.
Sep 2, 1992 · Barbara McClintock, America’s most distinguished cytogeneticist, was born in Hartford, Connecticut on June 16, 1902. She received her B.S. from Cornell University in 1923 and earned her M.A. in 1925 and her Ph.D. in 1927, also from Cornell. McClintock served as a graduate assistant in the Department of Botany from 1924-27 and in 1927 ...
McClintock died in Huntington, New York on September 2, 1992 . Even before her discovery of transposable elements in maize, Barbara McClintock was among the world's most respected cytogeneticists. She trained at Cornell with Rollins Emerson, one of the two foremost maize geneticists in the country (the other being Louis Stadler).
