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Woman Wins Nobel Prize In Medicine
STOCKHOLM Sweden AP The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Barbara McClintock an American whose pioneering genetics research over 30 years ago gained recognition in recent years Miss McClintock an 81 year old professor emeritus remains active at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Long Island She becomes the third woman to receive the prize The award carries about 190000 McClintock was cited for discovery of mobile genetic elements Born Hartford Conn 1902 honored for discovery of genetic elements in corn The Karolinska Institute noted the work also impacts virus disease research and described her experiments as highly ingenious and stringent revealing a world of previously unknown genetic phenomena
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Karolinska Medical Faculty