Hannah Whitaker

Hannah Whitaker previously photographed Prince’s Yellow Cloud electric guitar for Smithsonian.

McClintock used this Bausch & Lomb wide-field binocular microscope to examine morphological mutations in corn.

Women in Science

By Studying Corn, Barbara McClintock Unlocked the Secrets of Life

A look through a historic microscope helps explain what we all owe the Nobel Prize-winning scientist

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