Editing Barbara McClintock (section)

==Honors and recognition==
In 1947, McClintock received the Achievement Award from the [[American Association of University Women]]. She was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1959.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter M|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterM.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=July 22, 2014}}</ref> In 1967, McClintock was awarded the Kimber Genetics Award;{{sfn|Fedoroff|1995|p=229}} three years later, she was given the [[National Medal of Science]] by [[Richard Nixon]] in 1970.{{sfn|Fedoroff|1995|p=213}}{{sfn|National Medal of Science}} She was the first woman to be awarded the National Medal of Science.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=234|title=The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Detailswork=National Science Foundation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911174454/https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=234|archive-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref>
Cold Spring Harbor named a building in her honor in 1973.{{sfn|CSHL Biography}} She received the Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award and the Lewis S. Rosensteil Award in 1978.{{sfn|Fedoroff|1995|p=229}} In 1981, she became the first recipient of the [[MacArthur Foundation]] Grant, and was awarded the [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]],{{sfn|Washington Post}} the [[Wolf Prize in Medicine]] and the [[Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal]] by the Genetics Society of America. In 1982, she was awarded the [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] from [[Columbia University]] for her research in the "evolution of genetic information and the control of its expression."{{sfn|Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize}}{{sfn|CSHL Biography}}

Most notably, she received the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] in 1983, the first woman to win that prize unshared,{{sfn|Kolata|1992}} and the first American woman to win any unshared Nobel Prize in the sciences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/52803.html |title=Barbara McClintock |website=Nasonline.org |date=March 30, 2018 |access-date=August 19, 2018}}</ref> It was given to her by the [[Nobel Foundation]] for discovering "[[transposon|mobile genetic elements]]";{{sfn|Nobel Prize 1983}} this was more than 30 years after she initially described the phenomenon of controlling elements. She was compared to [[Gregor Mendel]] in terms of her scientific career by the [[Swedish Academy of Sciences]] when she was awarded the Prize.{{sfn|Keirns 1999}} Nobel Prize awards and their limitations, and the rationale for delayed awards are detailed in Kass (2024, pp.&nbsp;236–247).

[[File:McClintock Nobel Lecture.jpg|thumb|McClintock giving her Nobel Lecture]]

She was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1989|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1989]].{{sfn|Fedoroff|1995|p=236}} McClintock received the [[Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences]] of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1993.{{sfn|Benjamin Franklin Medal}} She had been previously elected to the APS in 1946.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Barbara+mcclintock&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> She was awarded 14 Honorary Doctor of Science degrees and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.{{sfn|CSHL Biography}} In 1986 she was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]]. During her final years, McClintock led a more public life, especially after [[Evelyn Fox Keller]]'s 1983 biography of her, ''A Feeling for the Organism,'' brought McClintock's story to the public. She remained a regular presence in the Cold Spring Harbor community, and gave talks on mobile genetic elements and the history of genetics research for the benefit of junior scientists. An anthology of her 43 publications ''The Discovery and Characterization of Transposable Elements: The Collected Papers of Barbara McClintock'' was published in 1987.{{sfn|Washington Post}}

The [[McClintock Prize]] is named in her honor.<ref name=mcprize>{{cite web|url=https://www.maizegdb.org/community/awards/mcclintock|title=The McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies|website=Maizegdb.org}}</ref> Laureates of the award include [[David Baulcombe]], [[Detlef Weigel]], [[Robert A. Martienssen]], [[Jeffrey D. Palmer]]  and [[Susan R. Wessler]].<ref name=mcprize/>

In May 2005 the U.S. Postal Service issued a panel of first-class stamps honoring Barbara McClintock, along with [[Richard Feynman]], [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]], and [[John von Neumann]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.1995738 |title=US Postage Stamps Feature Scientists |year=2005 |last1=Feder |first1=Toni |journal=Physics Today |volume=58 |issue=5 |page=30 |bibcode=2005PhT....58e..30F |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/58/5/30/1016907/US-Postage-Stamps-Feature-Scientists?redirectedFrom=fulltext}}</ref>

In May 2024, a plant species, ''Stellaria mcclintockiae,'' was named after her.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-05-26 |title=New plant species from Kerala’s Nelliyampathy named after Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/new-plant-species-from-keralas-nelliyampathy-named-after-nobel-laureate-barbara-mcclintock/article68218141.ece |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>