Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, she was one of four children of Thomas Henry McClintock and Sara Handy McClintock. At the age of 8, her family moved to Brooklyn, New York.. After she moved to Brooklyn, she graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1919. McClintock did extremely well in school and ended up earning her B.S. and M.S. degrees in botany at Cornell University. At a time when women were not encouraged to go to school to earn a career, McClintock sought to educate herself. She later received her Ph.D. in the same field at Cornell in 1927. At this point in time, women were not always permitted to major in Science let alone something as specific as Genetics. However, McClintock became a highly influential
