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Barbara McClintock

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Barbara McClintock 1902-92, American geneticist. She discovered that certain genetic material, "transposable elements," shifted its location in the chromosomes from generation to generation. At first ignored, her research was later recognized as a major contribution to DNA research. In 1983 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Author not available, MCCLINTOCK, BARBARA. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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McClintock, Barbara American Botanical Geneticist 1902-1992 Barbara McClintock, a pioneering botanical geneticist...graduating high school at age sixteen, McClintock attended the New York State College... Read more

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Barbara McClintock Geneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for...that genes could move from place to place on a chromosome. Barbara McClintock was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 16, 1902. She... Read more

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	Barbara McClintock, 90; Geneticist Won Nobel Prize ; HUNTINGTON, N.Y. Pioneering geneticist Barbara McClintock, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize...Huntington Hospital. Since 1942, Miss McClintock had performed pioneering research...structure of DNA, called Miss McClintock one of the three most important... Read more
	Barbara McClintock: Adele & Simon in America.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review) ; Barbara McClintock Adele & Simon in America; illus, by the author 40 pp. Foster/Farrar...Primary) Reiterating the pattern she used in Addle & Simon (rev. 9/06), McClintock takes the young Parisian and her absent-minded little brother on an... Read more
	Barbara McClintock, on her own ; FOUNDATIONS Geneticist Barbara McClintock, since her death in 1992, has become a feminist hero. She held...with a shotgun to guard her corn fields from birds." In 1930, McClintock hand-traced this camera lucida drawing of chromosomal changes... Read more
	Barbara McClintock: Adele & Simon.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review) ; Barbara McClintock Addle & Simon; illus, by the author 40 pp. Foster/Farrar 9/06 ISBN 0-374-38044-9 $16.00 (Primary) Each day, Adele fetches her... Read more
	BARBARA H. MCCLINTOCK.(LOCAL) ; 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. Read more
	MARY BARBARA MOSER MCCLINTOCK.(Triad) ; BURLINGTON -- Mrs. Mary Barbara Moser McClintock, 92, passed away Sunday, October 21, 2007. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 24, at Macedonia Lutheran Church. Burial will follow in Pine Hill Cemetery. Arrangements By Rich & Thompson Funeral Home. Read more
	* Barbara McClintock Dahlia.(Book Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article) ; ...ISBN 0-374-31678-3 16.00 g (Primary) McClintock's quiet palette of soft pinks, greens...evidences the makings of a young naturalist. McClintock subtly traces the doll's transformation...charming restraint of that sentence. McClintock's Victorian, gently washed pen-and-ink... Read more
	A conversation with Tom McClintock ; ...interviewed California State Sen. Tom McClintock via telephone. McClintock, a Republican whose district includes Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and part of Los Angeles...endorsed Schwarzenegger's candidacy. McClintock, who graduated with honors from the...for state controller. From 1992-94, ... Read more

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