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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work in maize genetics. Her research demystified heredity by showing that genetic elements could move from one chromosome to another—movement now referred to as transposition. Learn more about this determined scientist who faced many obstacles while performing her important work.