Barbara McClintock
1902 – 1992 · United States · Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983
Discovered jumping genes decades before the field caught up.
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- Gregor Mendel
1822 – 1884 · Biology
McClintock's maize cytogenetics traced Mendel's factors to visible chromosomal events.
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