Barbara McClintock Ph.D.
Barbara McClintock Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983
The President’s National Medal of Science – Biological Sciences 1970
Name: Barbara McClintock
Birth: 16 June 1902, Hartford, CT, USA
Death: 2 September 1992, Huntington, NY, USA
Institution: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Award: “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements”
Subject: genetics
Portion of cash: 1/1
Degree: Ph.D. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1927
Thesis: A Cytological and Genetic Study of Triploid Maize
Not Married
“Tacit assumptions – substance of dogma – served as barrier to effective communication. My understanding of phenomenon was too radical for time.”
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The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Barbara McClintock Title: Distinguished Service Member
Affiliation: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor,New York USA
Gender: Female
Year Deceased: 1992
Award Discipline: Biological Sciences
Award Year:1970
Citation: “For establishing the relations between inherited characters in plants and the detailed shapes of their chromosomes, and for showing that some genes are controlled by other genes within chromosomes.”
Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on May 21, 1971.