After earning her PhD at Cornell, McClintock stayed on as an ... To understand the mechanisms of inheritance in plants, Barbara McClintock had to rely on cross-breeding corn and developing hybrids.

While still at Cornell she developed a number of methods ... It’s impossible to sum up Barbara McClintock’s life and achievements in a single article. We’ve left out many discoveries ...

As pioneers in their respective industries, the legacies of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, Toni Morrison ’53 and Barbara McClintock ’23 M.S. ’25 Ph.D. ’27 have been memorialized on Cornell’s ...

BY TEDDY WARNERLAHS Alumnus – 20174th Year PhD Student in ChemistryMassachusetts Institute of Technology (Note: This column ...

They named their effort after Barbara McClintock, the late Cornell cytogeneticist who won a Nobel Prize, and planned it around her birthday, June 16. Her research on the genes in corn changed ...

These are the best-known milestones in genetics but along the way Barbara McClintock (1902-1992 ... She went to Cornell University School of Agriculture in 1919, graduating with a BSc in Botany ...

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However, even earlier, her parents recognized that her birth name, Eleanor, was too delicate to reflect their daughter’s strong persona, changing it to Barbara. (Hmm, that’s my name, too). In 1923, ...

Dr. McClintock was an autistic trailblazer ... Carolyn explained, "Barbara started her career in the 20s at Cornell. Women were not allowed to get research or teaching jobs above the lowest ...