Barbara McClintock was a pioneering scientist in the field of genetics at a time when nearly all scientists were men. Her experiments with corn led to the surprising discovery that genes can move over generations from one place on the genome to another and even from one type of organism to another. In 1983, almost forty years after her discovery of "jumping genes," McClintock became the first woman ever to be awarded an unshared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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Barbara McClintock was a pioneering scientist in the field of genetics at a time when nearly all scientists were men. Her experiments with corn led to the surprising discovery that genes can move over generations from one place on the genome to another and even from one type of organism to another. In 1983, almost forty years after her discovery of "jumping genes," McClintock became the first woman ever to be awarded an unshared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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