This article is about the American scientist. For the illustrator, see Barbara McClintock (illustrator).
Barbara McClintock
McClintock in her laboratory, 1947
Born
Eleanor McClintock
(1902-06-16)June 16, 1902
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died
September 2, 1992(1992-09-02) (aged 90)
Huntington, New York, United States
Alma mater
Cornell University (BS, MS, PhD)
Known for
Work in genetic structure of maize and corn
Awards
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1944)[1]
National Medal of Science (1970)
Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1981)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1982)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1983)
Scientific career
Fields
Cytogenetics (genetics scientist)
Institutions
University of Missouri
California Institute of Technology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thesis
A Cytological and Genetical Study of Triploid Maize(1927)
Signature
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. She developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas. One of those ideas was the notion of genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome to physical traits. She demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized as among the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships, and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.
During the 1940s and 1950s, McClintock discovered transposons and used it to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. She developed theories to explain the suppression and expression of genetic information from one generation of maize plants to the next. Due to skepticism of her research and its implications, she stopped publishing her data in 1953.
Later, she made an extensive study of the cytogenetics and ethnobotany of maize races from South America. McClintock's research became well understood in the 1960s and 1970s, as other scientists confirmed the mechanisms of genetic change and protein expression 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; as of 2023, she remains the only woman who has received an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.[2]
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