Yummy. I really do love corn, but not as much as one woman: Barbara McClintock. For nearly 70 years, she could not get enough of the stuff and, in 1983, her fixation won her a Nobel Prize.

Myrdal worked for the United Nations and for UNESCO. (STF/AFP/Getty Images) Barbara McClintock – Award: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Year: 1983 | By studying the hereditary of corn ...

Barbara McClintock in Letter to geneticist Oliver Nelson Luckily ... she was awarded an unshared Nobel prize in medicine and physiology (along with many other awards), to date the only woman to ...

In 1983, she was awarded the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of transposition. It’s impossible to sum up Barbara McClintock’s life and achievements in a single article.

Smith, shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with two other scientists ... There is only one Connecticut-born laureate who is a woman, Barbara McClintock, and she won the prize in physiology or ...

These are the best-known milestones in genetics but along the way Barbara McClintock ... ever to win an unshared Nobel Prize in that category. Born Eleanor McClintock in 1902 in Hartford ...

Alexander (All in a Drop) uses short chapters and quoted material to chronicle the exuberant life and work of Nobel Prize–winning scientist and cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock (1902–1992 ...

Opening on February 24 and running through March 12, with global live streams on March 4 and 11, In McClintock's Corn is the true story of little-known Nobel-prize-winning geneticist Dr. Barbara ...

Barbara McClintock was born in June 1902 in Hartford, Conn. She was the third of four children and was sent to live with her aunt and uncle in Brooklyn when she was 3 years old while her father ...

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned ... for production of monoclonal antibodies." 1983: Barbara McClintock, "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements." ...

Once it was established as a new species, the research team had decided to name it after Barbara McClintock who won an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 “for her discovery ...