Barbara McClintock
biologist cytogeneticist educator geneticist scientist
Barbara McClintock was an American biologist and cytogeneticist. Her discovery in the 1940s and 1950s of mobile genetic elements, or "jumping genes," won her the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.
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Born
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Died
September 2, 1992 (aged 90) -
Nationality
United States