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Barbara McClintock

American scientist
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Born:
June 16, 1902, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Died:
September 2, 1992, Huntington, New York (aged 90)
Awards And Honors:
Nobel Prize (1983)
Subjects Of Study:
corn
genetics
transposon
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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. McClintock, whose father was a physician, took great pleasure in science as a child and evidenced early the independence of mind and action that she would exhibit throughout the rest of her life. After attending high school, she enrolled as a biology major at Cornell University in 1919. She received a B.S. in 1923, a master’s ...(100 of 494 words)

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