Papers, 1933-1992.
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McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992
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Barbara McClintock was a maize geneticist who discovered "crossing over" and translocation or "jumping genes." She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983. Barbara McClintock, a maize geneticist, was born in Hartford, Connecticut on 16 June 1902. In 1908 her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where her interest in science began at Erasmus Hall High School. When she finished high school in 1919, McClintock enrolled, despite her parents' opposition, at Cornell University's Col...
Rhoades, Marcus M. (Marcus Morton), 1903-1991
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Geneticist. Rhoades began his professional career as an associate geneticist at the United States Department of Agriculture in 1935. In 1940 he went to Columbia University as associate professor and then to the University of Illinois as Professor of Botany. He came to Indiana University in 1958 where he chaired the Botany Department until 1968. In 1974 he became Distinguished Professor Emeritus and continued his studies in corn genetics until shortly before his death. ...
