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Wolf Prize · Medicine

Wolf Prize 1981: Winners

Recipients

  1. Barbara McClintock

    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.

  2. Stanley N. Cohen

    Biology

    for his concepts underlying genetic engineering; for constructing a biologically functional hybrid plasmid, and for achieving actual expression of a foreign gene implanted in E. Coli by the recombinant DNA method.