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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.
McClintock was born in Flemington, New Jersey, on May 6, 1955, [1] and spent her early childhood in Clinton, New Jersey. [2] She moved to North Dakota with her mother and sister when she was nine years old.
Comfort is best known for his 2001 biography of Barbara McClintock, The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. He has been praised for his reinterpretation of the response to McClintock's work on controlling elements. [3]
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 ...
On North Campus, Balch Hall stands out for its English Renaissance style. Originally, each of the four halls were decorated differently in "Early American, Georgian, English Jacobean, and modern Gramercy Park". [6] Balch Hall and Barbara McClintock Hall are the only all-female dormitories left on North Campus.
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 ...
Barbara McClintock (1902–1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist. She was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of genetic transposition. McClintock was the third woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first elected president of the Genetics Society of America. IAU · 161835
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