Dr. Barbara McClintock was an autistic trailblazer, a female pioneer who broke boundaries with her maize (corn) DNA research. Despite bullying from male colleagues, she persisted in her studies.

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, shown in her laboratory. This photograph was distributed when McClintock received the ...

Barbara McClintock, born on June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, developed an early interest in science, which she ...

Cast of In McClitock's Corn Autistic trailblazing female pioneer broke boundaries with her maize DNA research, eventually earning a Nobel prize and changing the understanding of DNA. Barbara kept ...

LONDON, July 21 (Science Analysed) Protestors against genetic engineering in the US — an increasingly common breed — have damaged a research plot at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where 1983 Nobel ...

Cast of In McClitock's Corn Autistic trailblazing female pioneer broke boundaries with her maize DNA research, eventually earning a Nobel prize and changing the understanding of DNA. Barbara kept ...