| Barbara McClintock  AKA Eleanor McClintock
Born: 16-Jun-1902
Birthplace: Hartford, CT
Died: 2-Sep-1992
Location of death: Huntington, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Huntington Rural Cemetery, Huntington, NY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Discovered telomeres Father: Thomas Henry McClintock
Mother: Sara Handy McClintock
Brother: Tom (younger)
High School: Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, NY (1919)
University: BA Botany, Cornell University (1923)
University: MA Botany, Cornell University (1925)
University: PhD Botany, Cornell University (1927)
Professor: Assistant Professor of Genetics, Cornell University (1927-31)
Professor: University of Missouri at Columbia (1936-40)
Professor: Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University (1965-74)
Nobel Prize for Medicine 1983
Wolf Prize in Medicine 1981 (with Stanley N. Cohen)
National Medal of Science 1971
Guggenheim Fellowship 1933
MacArthur Fellowship 1981
Lasker Award Basic Medical Research Award (1981)
National Academy of Sciences 1944
Is the subject of books:
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, 1984, BY: Evelyn Fox Keller
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