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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...
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  • McClintock (born 1954), feminist scholar in Zimbabwe Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), American scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine Barbara McClintock...
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    Barbara McClintock (born May 6, 1955) is an American illustrator and author of children's books. McClintock was born in Flemington, New Jersey, on May...
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    other proteins. Barbara McClintock discovered the first TEs in maize (Zea mays) at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. McClintock was experimenting...
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    Comfort is best known for his 2001 biography of Barbara McClintock, The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. He...
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  • Barbara McClintock 1985 Why Wembley Fraggle Couldn't Sleep, H. B. Gilmour, Barbara McClintock 1985 Goodnight Wembley Fraggle, H. B. Gilmour, Barbara McClintock...
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    Lockwood Lucretia Mott 1984 Mary "Mother" Harris Jones Bessie Smith 1986 Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe 1988 Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather...
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    governing inheritance, and examination of chromosomes in maize allowed Barbara McClintock to demonstrate their connection to inherited traits. The plant Arabidopsis...
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    of crossing over was first demonstrated by Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock in 1931. The linked frequency of crossing over between two gene loci...
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    spring at the Annual Maize Genetics Conference. Named in honour of Barbara McClintock the award was founded in 2013 by Jeffrey Bennetzen, and funded by...
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    chromosomes, reducing the number. Barbara McClintock began her career as a maize cytogeneticist. In 1931, McClintock and Harriet Creighton demonstrated...
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  • have become an important target of research in genetic engineering. Barbara McClintock first discovered and described DNA transposons in Zea mays, during...
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    2023. Biography | Congressman Tom McClintock. mcclintock.house.gov. Retrieved on September 25, 2015. "Tom McClintock for Lt. Governor" Archived February...
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    Barbara Ann Mikulski (/mɪˈkʌlski/ mih-CULL-skee; born July 20, 1936) is an American politician and social worker who served as a United States senator...
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    governing inheritance, and examination of chromosomes in maize allowed Barbara McClintock to demonstrate their connection to inherited traits. The plant Arabidopsis...
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    Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A Democrat, she was the first African...
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    have received the prize: Gerty Cori (1947), Rosalyn Yalow (1977), Barbara McClintock (1983), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986), Gertrude B. Elion (1988), Christiane...
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    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role...
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  • been members of Sigma Xi, such as Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling, Barbara McClintock, and Sally Ride. Sigma Xi has nearly 60,000 members who were elected...
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    Sothern, and Ginger Rogers, and comedic television performers Jack Benny, Barbara Pepper, Ethel Merman, Mary Wickes, and Mary Jane Croft; all except Garland...
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    Glenna Collett-Vare 2008 Jewel Plummer Cobb Patricia Goldman-Rakic Barbara McClintock Joan A. Steitz 2009 Martha Minerva Franklin Carolyn M. Mazure Helen...
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    Victoria (2023). Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood. p. 11. "The 7 Worst Celebrity Investments". Kabbage...
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    the cell to express protein when needed. Although as early as 1951, Barbara McClintock showed interaction between two genetic loci, Activator (Ac) and Dissociator...
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    Atlantic Monthly. 24: 295. September 1869. Origins of the American Civil War McFarland, Philip. Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe. New York: Grove Press, 2007:...
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    from the original on March 29, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016. Bindley, Barbara (January 16, 1916). "Why I Became an IWW". New York Tribune. Archived from...
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  • The existence of transposons was postulated in the late 1940s by Barbara McClintock, who was studying the inheritance of maize, but the actual molecular...
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    same or similar names Barbara McCauley, American romance writer Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), American scientist Barbara McNair (1934–2007), American...
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    Glenna Collett-Vare 2008 Jewel Plummer Cobb Patricia Goldman-Rakic Barbara McClintock Joan A. Steitz 2009 Martha Minerva Franklin Carolyn M. Mazure Helen...
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  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara McClintock and Alfred Hershey. Demerec was born and raised in Kostajnica (then...
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  • time at Cornell she worked in the field of maize cytogenetics with Barbara McClintock, the pair published a very influential paper in 1931 in which they...
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