biography
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McClintock, Barbara
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| female
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| lived:
| (1902–92)
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| biography:
| Geneticist and biologist, born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She studied at Cornell, where she later taught (1927–31). Working at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from the 1940s, she discovered and studied a new class of mutant genes in corn, concluding that the function of some genes is to control other genes, and that they can move on the chromosome to do this. She was awarded the National Medal of Science (1970), the first MacArthur Laureate Award (1981), and received the first unshared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to be awarded to a woman (1983). A biography which detailed her pioneering work A Feeling for the Organism appeared in 1983. |
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