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Barbara McClintock, Ph.D.

DATES: 1902 - 1992

ABOUT HER
Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for discovering genetic transposition through her work with the maize plant. She also learned that chromosomes can mend themselves. She proved this two decades before molecular biologists were able to do so working with much simpler cellular structures.

Dr. McClintock earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University. She was partially or entirely responsible for each of the discoveries in genetics made by the famous Cornell maize genetics group. She was also a professor and wrote children's books.

At the time of the discoveries that would earn her a Nobel Prize, she felt that she was not getting the support or acceptance her discoveries deserved. She persevered. It took more than three decades for her work to win her the Nobel Prize.

AWARDS/HONORS

  • Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology - 1983
  • Presidency of the Genetics Society of America - 1945
  • Lifetime Fellowship MacArthur Award
  • Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  • Wolf Foundation Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Barbara McClintock, Mary Kittredge
Barbara McClintock: Alone in Her Field, Deborah Heiligman and Janet Hamlin
A Feeling for the Organism : The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, Evelyn Fox Keller
LINKS TO LEARN SO MUCH MORE
http://w3.wo.sbc.edu/pr/obrien99/hall/mcclintock.html
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/medicine/1983a.html
http://www.cshl.org/comfort/scientists/mcclintock.html#rc


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