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and 1970s, as other scientists confirmed the mechanisms of genetic change and genetic regulation that she had demonstrated in her maize research in the 1940s and 1950s. Awards and recognition for her contributions to the field followed, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to her in 1983 for the discovery of genetic transposition; she is the only woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.
Early life.
Barbara McClintock was born Eleanor McClintock on June 16, 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut, the third of
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Notable people with the surname include:
- Anne McClintock (born 1954), feminist scholar in Zimbabwe
- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), American scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine
- Barbara McClintock (illustrator) (born 1955), American artist
- Byron McClintock (born 1930), American Abstract Expressionist artist
- Charles B. McClintock (1886–1965), American politician from Ohio
- Cynthia McClintock (born 1945), prominent American scholar of Latin America and professor of political