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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Nobel Prize
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Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 17:30:00 EDT
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The name of the woman who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine is

Barbara McClintock.

She is the first woman to ever win the Nobel Prize in Medicine
alone.

Two other women have won Nobel's on their own - Marie Curie (French)
in 1911 and Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin (British) in 1964.  They both won
for Chemistry.

Two women have shared the prize in medicine with men: Rosalyn
Yalow in 1977 and Theresa Cori in 1947 (both Americans).

Dr. McClintock won her prize for her discovery that genetic changes can
be caused when bits of genetic material rearranged themselves (she
discovered this in corn plants).  This contradicted some of the basic
assumptions of genetics, that is, genes were arranged on chromosomes
in fixed patterns.  She reported her findings in 1951 and was met
with silence.

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Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL 
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