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From: ariels@orca.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Nobel Prize
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Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 12:33:16 EDT
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The woman who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (this is the
full title of the prize) is 81 yr old Dr. Barbara McClintock.

She is the first woman to win this prize unshared, and the third woman
to win any Nobel Prize unshared.  The other two were Marie Curie in 1911,
Dorothy Hodgekin in 1964, both for Chemistry.  

Dr. McClintock won the prize for her work forty years ago on "jumping
genes" in corn.  These are genes that move from one cell to another and
thereby change the genetic information in the cells.  Her work was 
considered heretical at the time by the scientific establishment.

This is a general explanation that I gleaned from Tuesday's Oregonian last
night, so the details of the research may be wrong.

Anyway, that's the scoop.

Ariel Shattan
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