"Jumping Genes Theory."
Barbara was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1902. As a child Barbara expressed an interest in science. She worked as a
genetic researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, New York. She studied the effects of genes moving on
plants and the changing of heredity. She also researched Indian corn which helped her to develop the theory. Some
scientists at the lab were convinced she was crazy until she came up with the
"Jumping Genes Theory."
Her research has led to the realization of how to change the genetics of plants and which drugs are immune to cancer. She won the Nobel Prize of Physiology in 1983, and was the third woman to win an unshared Nobel Science Prize.
