Barbara McClintock. American Botanical Geneticist 1902-1992 Barbara McClintock, a pioneering botanical geneticist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1983 for her investigations on transposable genetic elements. She was...

Barbara McClintock, having just received the prestigious $15,000 Lasker Award in 1981 for her many contributions to the field of genetics....

Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock (1902–1992) was born in Hartford, Connecticut on June 16, and earned a doctorate in botany at Cornell University in 1927. Her early work on maize cytogenetics in R. A. Emerson's group at...

1902-1992 American Geneticist Barbara McClintock discovered that certain types of genes, called "jumping genes," can move from one place on a chromosome to another, from one generation to the next. For this discovery she was awarded the...

Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her Ph.D. in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader...

A Feeling for the Organism The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Evelyn Fox Keller. 1993; 235 pp. $15.95. W.H. Freeman. A good biography offers the richness of psyche in history. Keller has given us that richness. A Feeling can be...

FOUNDATIONS Geneticist Barbara McClintock, since her death in 1992, has become a feminist hero. She held steady in the male-dominated world of science, earning her first award in 1947 and culminating her career in 1982 with the Nobel Prize. Her observations and discoveries...