Barbara McClintock
Photo gallery
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
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
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
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
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
6 (of 10) Barbara McClintock in the lab at Cold Spring Harbor. Photo taken in April, 1963.
Source: National Institutes of Health. Courtesy of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society Photographer unknown
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
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
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
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
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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