Barbara McClintock

Awards

1. 1981

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the discovery that certain genetic elements are not static, but can move from one location to another on DNA.

2. 1981

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for her imaginative and important contributions to our understanding of chromosome structure behavior and function, and for her identification and description of transposable genetic (mobile) elements.

3. 1983

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for her discovery of mobile genetic elements