Barbara McClintock

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Gender	Female
Death	31 years ago
Date of birth	June 16,1902
Zodiac sign	Gemini
Born	Hartford
	Connecticut
	United States
Date of died	September 2,1992
Died	Huntington
	New York
	United States
Known for	genetic structure
	Work in genetic structure of maize
Awards	Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
	Wolf Prize in Medicine
	Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
	National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
	MacArthur Fellowship
	Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Siblings	Marjorie McClintock
	Malcolm Rider McClintock
	Mignon McClintock
Parents	Thomas Henry McClintock
	Sara Handy McClintock
Books	The discovery and characterization of transposable elements
	The gingerbread man
Official site	barbaramcclintockbooks.com
Education	Cornell University
Nationality	American
Date of Reg.	2019-02-14 23:47:35
Date of Upd.	2023-11-06 09:03:54
ID	418113

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Barbara McClintock Life story

Barbara McClintock 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.

Brian Cox: Why I've been exploring our scientific past

Feb 16,2020 9:00 am

... Lewis Fry Richardson was one of the first meteorologists, Max Perutz gave us our first look at what looks like a protein and Barbara Mcclintock demonstrated that the genes are on the chromosomes...