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Barbara McClintock – Biographical


Barbara McClintock - National Women's Hall of Fame

America's most distinguished cytogeneticist, Barbara McClintock she entered Cornell University in 1919 where she concentrated in plant breeding and botany.

Barbara McClintock's Early Scientific Ephemera

American scientist and cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was a pioneer in genetics research in the early 20th century, ...

Demythologizing McClintock - American Scientist

In this ambitious biographical study of Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), historian of science Nathan C. Comfort challenges the standard interpretation of her ...

Barbara McClintock - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Barbara McClintock ... Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American biologist. She was a distinguished cytogeneticist who worked on ...

Barbara McClintock - MacArthur Foundation

McClintock was a Distinguished Service Member of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, stationed at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since ...

Barbara McClintock - Science Communication Club

McClintock was also the first to discover transposition, which is when genes physically jump around in the genome. This discovery earned her the Nobel Prize. As ...

Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist - TeachIt

In 1983, McClintock became the first woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She was inducted into the National ...

Plant Scientist Highlight: Barbara McClintock - Plantae

Barbara McClintock was born on June 16th, 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut, and was raised in Brooklyn, NY. She was one of four children of ...

Barbara Mcclintock | Encyclopedia.com

She was born on June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, and with her family soon moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she attended public schools. After ...

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

Keller's biography of Barbara McClintock, A FEELING FOR THE ORGANISM, chronicles McClintock's personal and professional life, describing an idiosyncratic ...

The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas in the Century of ...

Barbara McClintock was born in 1902, within a few years of the rediscovery of Mendel's laws. Her life, discoveries, and insights span the history of genetics ...

Barbara McClintock: Champion of the Jumping Genes

Although marriage was the primary goal for most women in 1919, American geneticist Barbara McClintock, PhD bucked expectations and enrolled ...

Barbara McClintock: Biography, Discovery & Awards - Study.com

Barbara McClintock is a Nobel prize winning cytogeneticist born in Connecticut on June 16, 1902. She earned three degrees from Cornell University. Her ...

Barbara McClintock's 1961 conversation with two bacterial geneticists

Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), the renowned American maize geneticist, received the 1983 Nobel Prize “for her discovery of mobile genetic ...

Barbara McClintock was years away from her colleagues

At a time when molecular biologists struggled to devise a stable biochemical model for genes, Barbara McClintock discovered genetic transposition, ...

Barbara McClintock - wsemexhibit.org

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) studied the genetics of maize. Before 1960 she determined the mechanisms of inheritance: chromosomes are key, and genes can ...

Barbara McClintock - Bionity

Biography. During the 1940s and 1950s, McClintock discovered transposition and used it to show how genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on ...

A tale of two biographies: the myth and truth of Barbara McClintock

Evelyn Fox Keller wrote first biography of the Nobel Prize winning geneticist Barbara McClintock in which Keller discussed how McClintock ...

Barbara McClintock, Geneticist & Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine or ...

Barbara McClintock was born on June 16, 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut to Thomas Henry McClintock and Sara Handy McClintock.

From Chromosomes to Mobile Genetic Elements: The Life and Work ...

This biography of Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) places her life and work in its social, scientific and personal context.


Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8tZ96ctzoSVQSC9RhfIaDdgCjpUTYhl_iaqV9ziEQukmQD-hQ

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her aunts, one stern and one kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine.

The Tangled Field

Book by Nathaniel C. Comfort