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  1. Many women made pioneering scientific breakthroughs over the past centuries. Learn about famous women scientists who have changed our understanding of the world.

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  1. 27. Mai 2024 · Barbara McClintock (born June 16, 1902, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.—died September 2, 1992, Huntington, New York) was an American scientist whose discovery in the 1940s and ’50s of mobile genetic elements, or “ jumping genes,” won her the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.

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  2. 19. Mai 2024 · Barbara McClintock conducted experiments on corn in the United States in the mid-twentieth century to study the structure and function of the chromosomes in the cells. McClintock researched how genes combined in corn and proposed mechanisms for how those interactions are regulated. McClintock received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...

  3. Vor 2 Tagen · Barbara McClintock observed the phenomenon of jumping genes in maize as early as 1944. However, her findings challenged the prevailing scientific understanding at the time. It wasn't until the 1980s (40 years) that the significance of her work was fully recognized :

  4. 8. Mai 2024 · Their detailed descriptions of chromosome dynamics during mitosis and meiosis, combined with subsequent genetic experiments by Thomas Hunt Morgan and Barbara McClintock, gave rise to our...

  5. 13. Mai 2024 · #biography #history #documentary #usanews #englishbooks Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was an American geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...

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  6. Vor 5 Tagen · Barbara McClintock, who discovered transposons, proposed the idea of “genome shock,” suggesting that stress can activate the movement of transposons, causing insertional mutations and ...

  7. 15. Mai 2024 · Barbara McClintock. The discoverer of the ‘jumping gene’, Barbara McClintock is a Nobel prize winner and is one of the most notable cytogeneticists. Kadambini (Basu) Ganguly. During the dominion of the British Empire, Kadambini Ganguly was one of the first women trained in western medicine, not only in India but in Asia.