barbara mcclintock
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Barbara McClintock
By: Kamila Rojas
Honors 1947 – Achievement Award from the American Association of
University Women 1959 – Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences 1967 – Kimber Genetics Award 1970 – National Medal of Science 1973 – Cold Spring Harbor named a building in her honor 1978 – Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award 1978 – Lewis S. Rosenteil Award 1981 – First recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant 1981 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research 1981 – Wolf Prize Medicine 1981 – Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal 1982 – Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 1983 – Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (first woman)
Famous Quotes: “I never thought of stopping, and I just
hated sleeping. I can’t imagine having a better life.”
“When you know you’re right, you don’t care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the wash.”
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