'Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. She discovered a chromosome-breaking locus that could change its position within a chromosome it is now known as genetic transposition. no matter what they say.' - Barbara McClintock, Scientist and Cytogeneticistīarbara McClintock was a scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 'If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off. She was even labeled the 'mother of modern physics.' 2. She never had a fancy laboratory for her work, yet gained success never the less.
The work she did was demanding and fatal, but that didn't stop her from discovering polonium and radium.
Marie Curie, whose full name was Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
