1902 - 1992
Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara McClintock has received more than 1,108,429 page views. Her biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Barbara McClintock is the 26th most popular biologist (up from 35th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from United States (up from 468th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Biologist.
Barbara McClintock is most famous for her discovery of transposons, which are segments of DNA that can move to different locations in the genome.
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Among biologists, Barbara McClintock ranks 26 out of 841. Before her are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Thomas Henry Huxley, Maria Sibylla Merian, Rachel Carson, Élie Metchnikoff, and Trofim Lysenko. After her are Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Conrad Gessner, Jules Bordet, Dian Fossey, Charles Richet, and Theodor Schwann.
1707 - 1788
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 20
1825 - 1895
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 21
1647 - 1717
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 22
1907 - 1964
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 23
1845 - 1916
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 24
1898 - 1976
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 25
1902 - 1992
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 26
1852 - 1934
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 27
1516 - 1565
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 28
1870 - 1961
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 29
1932 - 1985
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 30
1850 - 1935
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 31
1810 - 1882
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 32
Among people born in 1902, Barbara McClintock ranks 16. Before her are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Talcott Parsons, Halldór Laxness, Fernand Braudel, Ray Kroc, and Saud of Saudi Arabia. After her are Eugene Wigner, Nâzım Hikmet, William Wyler, Alfred Kastler, Walter Houser Brattain, and Kurt Alder. Among people deceased in 1992, Barbara McClintock ranks 13. Before her are Astor Piazzolla, Menachem Begin, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Mikhail Tal, and Francis Bacon. After her are Aribert Heim, Giovanni Falcone, Benny Hill, Li Xiannian, James E. Webb, and Anthony Perkins.
1902 - 1991
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 10
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 11
1902 - 1998
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 12
1902 - 1985
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 13
1902 - 1984
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 14
1902 - 1969
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 15
1902 - 1992
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 16
1902 - 1995
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 17
1902 - 1963
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 18
1902 - 1981
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 19
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 20
1902 - 1987
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 21
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 22
1921 - 1992
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 7
1913 - 1992
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 8
1908 - 1992
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 9
1912 - 1992
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 10
1936 - 1992
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 11
1909 - 1992
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 12
1902 - 1992
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 13
1914 - 1992
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 14
1939 - 1992
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 15
1924 - 1992
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 16
1909 - 1992
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 17
1906 - 1992
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 18
1932 - 1992
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 19
Among people born in United States, Barbara McClintock ranks 321 out of 18,182. Before her are Philip Roth (1933), Buffalo Bill (1846), George S. Patton (1885), William Henry Harrison (1773), Jerry Brown (1938), and Natalie Wood (1938). After her are James Buchanan (1791), Carl David Anderson (1905), O. Henry (1862), Barry Barish (1936), O. J. Simpson (1947), and Anton LaVey (1930).
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 315
1846 - 1917
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 316
1885 - 1945
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 317
1773 - 1841
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 318
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 319
1938 - 1981
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 320
1902 - 1992
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 321
1791 - 1868
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 322
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 323
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 324
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 325
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 326
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 327
Among biologists born in United States, Barbara McClintock ranks 4. Before her are James Watson (1928), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), and Rachel Carson (1907). After her are Dian Fossey (1932), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), Linda B. Buck (1947), George Beadle (1903), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), and Irwin Rose (1926).
1928 - Present
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 1
1866 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 2
1907 - 1964
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 3
1902 - 1992
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 4
1932 - 1985
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 6
1890 - 1967
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 8
1903 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 9
1897 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 10
1938 - 2011
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 11
1926 - 2015
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 12