Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize laureates
Barbara McClintock
1983 Physiology or Medicine
* 1902 Hartford, Connecticut
+ 1992 Huntington, New York
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Barbara McClintock was an American scientist and cytogeneticist.
She conducted maize plant research that led to her discovery of genetic transposition
- the movement of genetic materialwithin and between chromosomes.
In 1983 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,
the first woman to win that prize unshared.
2021 J. Giesen