Brief Chronology
- 1902 --Born Eleanor McClintock in Hartford, Connecticut, but soon became known as Barbara (June 16)
- 1908 --McClintock family moved to Brooklyn, New York
- 1919 --Graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn
- 1919-25 --Earned undergraduate (1923) and graduate (1925) degrees in botany, Cornell University
- 1927 --Received PhD (botany), Cornell University
- 1927-31 --Instructor and researcher in maize genetics, Cornell University
- 1931 --Published (with H. Creighton) article on genetic crossing-over in maize
- 1931 --Fellow, National Research Council; conducted research at Cornell, University of Missouri at Columbia, and California Institute of Technology
- 1933-34 --Fellow, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; conducted research at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin, and Botanical Institute, Freiburg (Germany)
- 1934-36 --Researcher, Cornell University
- 1936-40 --Assistant Professor of Genetics, University of Missouri at Columbia
- 1941-67 --Researcher in Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York
- 1944 --Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- 1945 --Elected President, Genetics Society of America
- 1951 --Gave controversial lecture at Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on her theories of "controlling elements" in maize
- 1957-66 --Embarked on series of research trips to Latin America to study different races of maize
- 1967 --Distinguished Service Award, Carnegie Institution of Washington; stayed on as Distinguished Service Member until 1992
- 1971 --Received National Medal of Science from President Richard M. Nixon
- 1981 --Recipient, MacArthur Foundation Grant (inaugural recipient, lifetime award)
- 1981 --Recipient, Albert and Mary Lasker Award
- 1983 --Received Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1992 --Died in Huntington, New York (September 2)