Barbara McClintock
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1983for her discovery of mobile genetic elements
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 6/16/1902
- place of birth
- Hartford
- date of death
- 9/2/1992
- place of death
- Huntington
- Lived
- 90 years
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- educated at
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- Cornell University
- academic major: botany
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- start time: 1919
- Erasmus Hall High School
- end time: 1919
- University of Missouri
- Cornell University
- member of
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- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 1959
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1946
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1944
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Royal Society of London
- Graduate Women in Science
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- employer
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- start time: December 1941
- University of Missouri
- Cornell University
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- field of work
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- cytogenetics
- genetics
- occupation
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- cytogeneticist
- chemist
- university teacher
- botanist
- geneticist
- cell biologist
- doctoral student
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- Almiro Blumenschein