| Barbara McClintock’s most noted discovery, "jumping genes," changed the world of modern genetics and her name is recognized worldwide. In 1983, at age eighty-one, she became the first woman ever to receive an unshared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Before then few people, including other scientists, understood the importance of McClintock’s research. For decades she worked on her own in the fields, growing crops of maize-Indian corn-and in her lab, studying the inner workings… |
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