Barbara McClintock was a celebrated geneticist whose 70 years of meticulous experiments in the genetics of maize, or Indian corn, have been lauded for their con

Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work in maize genetics. Her research demystified heredity by showing that genetic elements could m

Throughout history, science has evolved and changed the way we live our lives and perceive the world around us. Many scientists in the last few centuries have m

A biography of the geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for her discovery that certain genes can change their position on the chromosomes of cells.

Died Sep. 2 1992.