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OCR: 1902 On June 16 Barbara McClintock born in Hartford Connecticut. 1927 is awarded her Ph.D. in botany at Cornell University New York, then begins work there as an instructor 1931 Continues her research at the National Research Council. 1933 Becomes Guggen heim Fellow at the Cold Spring Harbor boratory New York, the leading genetic research laboratory in the United States 1936 Becomes assistant professor at the University of Missouri 1941 Works for the Carnegie Institution of W ashington DC in the department genetic research which is based at the Cold Spring Harbor l aboratory, New York Here she begins her study of how genes are linked to form chromosomes (strands of the complex chemical DNA) in the nucleus (center) of a cell. She plants fields of maize and studies the leaf formation and col ...