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Babara was born June, 16, 1902, in Hartford, Conncticut.
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She entered Cornell University in the fall.
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She graduated with a bachelor of science degree.
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Barbara enrolled the Botany department to study cytology, the study of cells.
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She discovered her own mythodology, it enabled cytogeneticist to distinguish and identify each of the ten maize chromosomes.
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She recived her doctorate from Cornell.
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She and her friend Harriet Creighton, discovered chromosomes exchange genetic information during cell division.
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Her and her friend Harreit Creighton, published "A Correlation of cytological and Genetical Crossings over in zea mays".
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Her and a fellowship from the National research councile under took partime research at Cornell.
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She recieved a guggenheim fellowship to study at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany.
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She got offered from the University of Missouri, an assistant professorship.
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The Carnagie Institute of Washington, gave her a full time, permanent appointment as staff member.
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The Genetics Society of America elected her president.
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She died in 1992.
