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Barbara McclintockBarbara McClintock (June 16,1902-September 2,1992)was considered to be one of America's most distinguished cytogeneticist. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, she recieved her secondary education Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York, she later earn a B.Sc. an M.A and a Ph.D from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1923, 1925, 1927 respectively. She remained at Cornell until 1936 when she accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Missouri in its Department of Botany. In 1941, she joined the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, she remained associated with the institution until her death in 1992, paticularly with its Genetics Research Unit, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. During her long career she held many prestigious positions and recieved numerous awards and Honorary Doctorates most notably in 1983 she recieved the Nobel Prize for Medicine. McClintock was credited by the Nobel Foundation as discovering "mobile genetic elements", she noted that by genes changing places their function in turn was altered, she demonstrated this on maize. The Nobel Prize was not awarded until 1983 however the discovery which lead to its presentation took place about 30 years earlier, at a time when the genetic code and the DNA double helix were not known, making the discovery even more remarkable. Its importance only came to light in the late 1970's and early 1980's and it is now considered to be a discovery at the root of today's research in genetic engineering. External links Books - Evelyn Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, W. H. Freeman & Co, 1984
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