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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983

"for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock
USA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
b. 1902
d. 1992
 
 
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