Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintockwas an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader in the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. She developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 June 1902
CityHartford, CT
CountryUnited States of America