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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 ...
Barbara McClintock (born May 6, 1955) is an American illustrator and author of children's books. Background. McClintock was born in Flemington, New Jersey, on ...
Named in honour of Barbara McClintock the award was founded in 2013 by Jeffrey Bennetzen, and funded by his royalties from the book Handbook of Maize by Bennetzen and Sarah Hake. McClintock received the Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in 1983 for her work on maize genome structure, function and evolution, especially for her discovery and ...
Author Robert L. Forbes and illustrator Barbara McClintock attend the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach's Oct. 28 event to launch the children's book "Addison Mizner, Visionary Architect" at a ...
Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), American geneticist, Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine 1983; Eileen McCracken (1920–1988), Irish botanist; Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893–1950), American plant pathologist; Anne McLaren (1927–2007), British developmental biologist; Ethel Irene McLennan (1891–1983), Australian botanist
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In 1931, Barbara McClintock discovered a triploid maize plant. She made key findings regarding corn's karyotype, including the size and shape of the chromosomes. McClintock used the prophase and metaphase stages of mitosis to describe the morphology of corn's chromosomes, and later showed the first ever cytological demonstration of crossing ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...