Barbara McClintock is a famous botanist.

11.  1947 – Achievement Award from the American Association of
University Women
 1959 – Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
 1967 – Kimber Genetics Award
 1970 – National Medal of Science
 1973 – Cold Spring Harbor named a building in her honor
 1978 – Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award
 1978 – Lewis S. Rosenteil Award
 1981 – First recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant
 1981 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
 1981 – Wolf Prize Medicine
 1981 – Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
 1982 – Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
 1983 – Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (first woman)

14.  “I never thought of stopping, and I just
hated sleeping. I can’t imagine having a
better life.”
 “When you know you’re right, you don’t
care what others think. You know sooner
or later it will come out in the wash.”