Barbara McClintock
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1 (of 10) HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden and Barbara McClintock, checking out the programme for the evening, at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December 1983.
Copyright © Svensk Reportagetjänst 1983 Photo: Ulf Blumenberg
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2 (of 10) Barbara McClintock delivering her Nobel Lecture at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, 8 December 1983.
Source: National Institutes of Health. Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society Photographer unknown
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3 (of 10) Barbara McClintock with Alfred Hershey, 1969 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Date unknown.
Source: National Institutes of Health. Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society Photographer unknown
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4 (of 10) Barbara McClintock with staff at the Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Barbara McClintock is standing third from the left in the first row. Photo taken in August, 1984.
Source: National Institutes of Health. Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society Photographer unknown
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5 (of 10) Photograph of Barbara McClintock's five ears of corn and a microscope.
Source: Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American History Photographer unknown
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6 (of 10) Barbara McClintock in the lab at Cold Spring Harbor, April, 1963.
National Institutes of Health. Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society. Photographer unknown
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7 (of 10) Barbara McClintock arrived at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island in 1941 and spent most of her remaining research years at the facility. Photo taken ca 1950.
Source: National Institutes of Health. Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society Photographer unknown
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8 (of 10) Barbara McClintock shown in her laboratory at the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1947.
Source: Smithsonian Institution/Science Service; Restored by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons Photographer unknown
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9 (of 10) Barbara McClintock with her family. From left to right: Mignon, Malcolm Rider "Tom", Barbara, Marjorie, and Sara (at the piano). Photo taken ca 1914.
Source: National Institutes of Health. Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society Photographer unknown
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10 (of 10) The McClintock siblings. From the left: Mignon, Malcolm Rider "Tom", Barbara, and Marjorie. Photo taken in 1907.
Source: National Institutes of Health. Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society Photographer unknown
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