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Barbara McClintock
Full Name of the recipient | Barbara McClintock |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1983 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for her discovery of mobile genetic elements |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA |
Place of Birth | Hartford, CT, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 16 June 1902 |
Age at the time of Award | 80 years |
Place of Death | Huntington, NY, United States USA |
Date of Death | 2 September 1992 |