Quote of the day by American scientist Barbara McClintock: 'If you know you are on the right track, if yo

Barbara McClintock
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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. She developed the techniq
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Barbara McClintock was years away from her colleagues - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Salk scientist Joseph Ecker awarded McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies - Salk Institute for Biological Studies