Nobel Prize geneticist Barbara McClintock dies 1992
Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize winning geneticist, died September 2, 1992
“Throughout her career, Barbara McClintock studied the cytogenetics of maize, making discoveries so far beyond the understanding of the time that other scientists essentially ignored her work for more than a decade. But she persisted, trusting herself and the evidence under her microscope.”
The Nobel Prize | Women who changed science | Barbara McClintock
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1944)
National Medal of Science (1970)
Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1981)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1982)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1983)
Part of the American Scientists series
Issued by USPS in 2005
Artist: Victor Stabin
Over the many years, I truly enjoyed not being required to defend my interpretations. I could just work with the greatest of pleasure.
I never felt the need nor the desire to defend my views. If I turned out to be wrong, I just forgot that I ever held such a view. It didn’t matter.
BARBARA McCLINTOCK