The unsung hero of science: Barbara McClintock, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of mobile genetic elements

In 1983, American plant biologist and cytogeneticist McClintock, one of the great loners of modern­ scien­ce, received the first woman scientist’s unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Barbara McClintock’s research, conducted in the 1930s, long before the structure of DNA was deciphered, i...

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Published in:	The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal
Main Authors:	O. P. Matyshevska, M. V. Grigorieva, S. V. Komisarenko
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Palladin Institute of Biochemistry 2025-08-01
Subjects:	ac/ds controlling elements barbara mcclintock crossing over maize genetic map nobel prize transposons
Online Access:	http://ukrbiochemjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Matyshevska_97_4.pdf