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Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock 1902-92, American geneticist. She discovered that certain genetic material, "transposable elements" or "jumping genes" (now called transposons), shifted its location in the chromosomes from generation to generation. At first ignored, her research was later recognized as a... Read more
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Nobel Prizes Nobel Prizes Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E... Read more

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McClintock, Barbara
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History McClintock, Barbara (1902–1992), biologist and Nobel laureate.Born in Hartford, Barbara McClintock was educated at Cornell, from which she received a Ph.D. in botany...
Barbara McClintock
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Barbara McClintock Geneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology...genes could move from place to place on a chromosome. Barbara McClintock was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 16, 1902...
Agricultural Experiment Stations
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Rollins A. Emerson trained future Nobelists George W. Beadle and Barbara McClintock . At the Illinois station the development of hybrid corn, perhaps...On Science and American Social Thought , rev. ed., 1997. Barbara A. Kimmelman
American Association of University Women
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...been made to women in 120 countries since the AAUW was founded. Notable AAUW awardees have included Marie Curie, Barbara McClintock, and Judith Resnik. Between 2001 and 2002 a total of 287 women received funding from the AAUW Education Foundation...

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McClintock, Barbara
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology McClintock, Barbara (1902–92) US botanist and geneticist, who joined the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute. She...
transposon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology ...containing functional genes, flanked by insertion sequences at either end. Transposons were first discovered by Barbara McClintock in maize in the 1940s and have since been found in other eukaryotes and in prokaryotes. They can disrupt gene expression...

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Barbara McClintock: Genius of Genetics.(Great Minds of Science series)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Science Teacher; 6/22/2008; ; 692 words ; Barbara McClintock: Genius of Genetics By Naomi Pasachoff...0766025055. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Barbara McClintock began studying genetics in 1923...groundbreaking, yet often solitary, life of Barbara McClintock. Geared toward grades 5-12, the...
Barbara McClintock, 90; Geneticist Won Nobel Prize
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 9/4/1992; ; 563 words ; ...N.Y. Pioneering geneticist Barbara McClintock, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize...Hospital. Since 1942, Miss McClintock had performed pioneering research...structure of DNA, called Miss McClintock one of the three most important...
Barbara McClintock, reteller: Cinderella.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine; 9/1/2005; ; 604 words ; Barbara McClintock, reteller Cinderella; illus, by...56145-0 $15.99 g (Primary) McClintock's pre-ball Cinderella looks as...magnificent French court of Louis XIV. In McClintock's intricate pen-and-ink and watercolor...
CORNELL GRADUATE STUDENT NICOLE RUSSO RECEIVES BARBARA MCCLINTOCK AWARD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/11/2007; 699 words ; ...NY, has been named the recipient of the Barbara McClintock Award from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The McClintock Award honors the late Barbara McClintock, who won the Nobel Prize for work that...
A Feeling for the Organism: the Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Whole Earth; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Organism The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Evelyn Fox Keller. 1993; 235...meanings of "gene", and, through McClintock's eyes and Keller's writing...I am nothing; I see all." McClintock says it more simply: "I'm...
Barbara McClintock: Adele & Simon in America.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine; 9/1/2008; ; 582 words ; Barbara McClintock Adele & Simon in America; illus, by the author 40 pp. Foster...Reiterating the pattern she used in Addle & Simon (rev. 9/06), McClintock takes the young Parisian and her absent-minded little brother on...
Barbara McClintock, on her own
Magazine article from: The Scientist; 4/21/2003; ; 457 words ; FOUNDATIONS Geneticist Barbara McClintock, since her death in 1992, has become a feminist hero. She...a shotgun to guard her corn fields from birds." In 1930, McClintock hand-traced this camera lucida drawing of chromosomal changes...
Barbara McClintock: Adele & Simon.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine; 9/1/2006; ; 578 words ; Barbara McClintock Addle & Simon; illus, by the author 40 pp. Foster/Farrar 9/06 ISBN 0-374-38044-9 $16.00 (Primary) Each...
BARBARA H. MCCLINTOCK.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 12/12/1996; 226 words ; MARSHALL -- Barbara Higgins McClintock, 67, died Dec. 9, 1996. A funeral will be at 10 a.m. today in St. Johns Catholic Church, Warrenton, Va. Royston Funeral Home is in charge.
* Barbara McClintock Dahlia.(Book Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine; 9/1/2002; ; 677 words ; ...374-31678-3 16.00 g (Primary) McClintock's quiet palette of soft pinks, greens...the makings of a young naturalist. McClintock subtly traces the doll's transformation...charming restraint of that sentence. McClintock's Victorian, gently washed pen...