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Barbara McClintock

1902 - 1992

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Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was 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 of 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara McClintock is the 37th most popular biologist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 421st most popular biography from United States (down from 398th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Biologist.

Barbara McClintock is most famous for her discovery of transposons, which are segments of DNA that can move to different locations in the genome.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Barbara McClintock ranks 37 out of 1,097. Before her are Maria Sibylla Merian, Albrecht Kossel, Conrad Gessner, Francis Crick, George Smith, and Trofim Lysenko. After her are John Edward Gray, Rachel Carson, Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, Karl von Frisch, and Ada Yonath.

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Among people born in 1902, Barbara McClintock ranks 17. Before her are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eugene Wigner, Kurt Alder, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Fernand Braudel, and Alfred Kastler. After her are Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, Talcott Parsons, André Michel Lwoff, Josemaría Escrivá, and Alva Myrdal. Among people deceased in 1992, Barbara McClintock ranks 13. Before her are Astor Piazzolla, Menachem Begin, Mikhail Tal, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, and Francis Bacon. After her are Giovanni Falcone, Li Xiannian, Daniel Bovet, Karl Carstens, Ernst Happel, and Joan Fuster.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara McClintock ranks 421 out of 20,380. Before her are O. Henry (1862), Tim Burton (1958), Glenn Close (1947), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Shirley MacLaine (1934), and Leonardo DiCaprio (1974). After her are Ivanka Trump (1981), Harvey Keitel (1939), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), James Rainwater (1917), Henry Miller (1891), and Robert Kiyosaki (1947).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Barbara McClintock ranks 6. Before her are James Watson (1928), George Beadle (1903), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Edward Tatum (1909), and George Smith (1941). After her are Rachel Carson (1907), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Dian Fossey (1932), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), and Alfred Hershey (1908).

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