Barbara McClintock
Personal Information
Born: 1902
Died: 1992
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Education
Cornell University BS 1923, MS 1925, PhD 1927 all in Botany (women were precluded from majoring in cytogenetics at the time of her attendance)
Professional Life
Field of Study: Botany; Cytogenetics
Institution/Corporation: Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory; University of Missouri; Cornell University; California Institute of Technology
Degrees & Memberships: Honorary Degree: University of Rochester (1947), Western College for Women (1949), Smith College (1957), University of Missouri (1968),Williams College (1972),The Rockefeller University (1979), Harvard University (1979), Yale University (1982), University of Cambridge (1982), Bard College (1983), SUNY (1983), NYU (1983), Georgetown University (1981); Member: National Academy of Sciences (1944),Fellow National Research Council (1931-33), Fellow Guggenheim Foundation (1933-34), The Society for Developmental Biology (1981), The Genetical Society of Great Britain (1982), Genetics Society of America, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1959),Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS, 1989), Americal Philosophical Society (1946)
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 1983, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medine; 1970, National Medal of Science; 1981, Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, Genetics Society of America; 1982, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry; 1947, Achievement Award, Association of University Women; 1957, Merit Award, Botanical Society of America; 1967, Kimber Genetics Award, National Academy of Sciences; 1978, Lewis s. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished work in Basic Medical Research; 1978, The Louis & Bert Freedman Foundation Award for Research in Biochemistry; 1980, Salute from the Genetics Society of America; 1981, Wolf Prize in Medicine; 1981, albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award; 1981, MacArthur Prize Fellow Laureate; 1982, Charles Leopold Mayer Prize, Academie des Sciences, Institut de France; 1993, Benjamin Franklin Medal, American Philosophical Society; 1986, National Women s Hall of Fame; 2005, US Postage Stamp; 2008, Connecticut Women s Hall of Fame
Achievements: stopped publishing her findings due to controvery over them, many were subsequently proven after the advent of better technology; as of 2022, the only female who has received an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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