McClintock gba ami ẹyẹ Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society ni 1993. O gba oye oye oye oye oye 14 ati oye oye oye ti awọn iwe eniyan. Ni ọdun 1986 o wọ inu Ile-iṣẹ Awọn Obirin ti Orilẹ-ede ti Orilẹ-ede. Lakoko awọn ọdun to kẹhin rẹ, McClintock ṣe igbesi aye ti o pọju, paapaa lẹhin ti Evelyn Fox Keller's 1983 itan-aye rẹ, A Feeling for the Organism, mu itan McClintock si gbangba. O wa ni wiwa nigbagbogbo ni agbegbe Cold Spring Harbor, o si fun awọn ijiroro lori awọn eroja jiini alagbeka ati itan ti iwadii jiini fun anfani awọn onimo ijinlẹ sayensi kekere.
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